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it is called "Glassing" because the covenant orbital plasma weapons cause the soil to litteraly turn into molten glass. all other stuff, of corse is burned, but the surface becomes glass.
months latter, the planet begins to recover, slowly the hot molten glass cools, and the planet becomes a desolate wasteland. (sometimes desert like, other times tundra like)