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Sand samples Articles about specific and interesting sand samples.
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#570. Hydromagnesite sand from Turkey. |
Sand composed of hydromagnesite and serpentinite. |
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#981. Blue sand from Namibia. |
Blue sand? Is it possible? |
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#1251. Globigerina ooze from the Weddell Sea. |
Globigerina ooze — seafloor sediment composed of tests of planktonic forams. |
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#85. Volcanic ash of Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA |
Volcanic ash — pumice, plagioclase, quartz, amphibole, pyroxene. |
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#580. Halls Lake, Ontario, Canada |
Heavy mineral sand. Actinolite, augite, almandine, epidote, quartz, orthoclase, magnetite. |
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#1012. Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel, the Azores, Portugal |
Volcanic sand. Major components separated from each other. Diopside, volcanic glass, analcime, plagioclase, magnetite, olivine, aegirine. |
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#13. Sint Maarten, Netherlands territory in the Caribbean. |
Biogenic sand. Forams, corals, sponges, mollusks, etc. |
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#190. Capdepera, Majorca, Baleares. |
Biogenic sand. Very well preserved shells. Sea urchins, mollusks, forams, bryozoans, ostracods, serpulids, scaphopods, sponges. |
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#910. Kap Gerakes, Zakynthos, Greece. |
Biogenic sand. Foraminifera, ostracods, mollusks, sea urchins. |
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#63. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA. |
Gypsum sand. |
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#338. Plage de la Paree, Bretignolles-sur-mer, France. |
Heavy mineral sand. Quartz, almandine, spinel, staurolite, rutile, etc. |
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#991. Between Butre and Busua, Ghana. |
Mixed biogenic-lithic sand. Greenstone and rhyolite fragments, sea urchin spines, clam shells. |
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