Travel Guide Gulf El-El

Area formally discouraged by the Department of Foreign Affairs to print the guide (early 2018). 50 million years ago, the violent impact of an alien object on the large sea of sand in the Libyan desert produced the fusion of a land layer whose Libyan glass was the result. It was the Consul of France in Djeddah (Saudi Arabia), Fulgence Fresnel who, more than a hundred and sixty years ago, said that a Bedouin party looking for a track, had found fragments of glass and he thought that this part of the desert was humanly inhabited. It was only in 1933 that an engineer working for the Egyptian topographic service rediscovered the site. Theodore Monod was also interested in the Gulf El-Kébir, and he visited the site over 5,000 km ².The most accepted and widespread scientific explanation of the phenomenon of the Libyan glass is the one we are transmitting to you; researchers are not entirely certain, and their studies continue around the Libyan glass, which you will recognize with its yellow color to light green, more or less transparent, some samples containing bubbles. The scientific question relates to the nature of the merger: is it an impactic (a chemical reaction at the place of the impact of a meteorite, for example) or a tectic (the impact impact projected to miles)? The aridity of the Gulf El Kébir will attract you to the desert, or to science. Located at the borders of the Sudanese and Libyan borders (latitudes N 25 ° 02 ' - N 26 ° 13') and 50 km west of the border (longitudes E 25 ° 24 ' - E 25 ° 55'), the expedition is to be preferred. It is nevertheless difficult and requires unfailing equipment and preparation, since the necessary water and fuel autonomy is two weeks. This trip takes twenty days.