Sand #4 - Heavy Mineral Sand from Dockweiler Beach, California http://www.paccd.

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Sand #4 - Heavy Mineral Sand from Dockweiler Beach, California
http://www.paccd.cc.ca.us/instadmn/physcidv/geol_dp/dndougla/SAND/SandPile/DocWilr.htm

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Sand #5 - Volcanic Black Sand from Jokulska River Mouth, Iceland

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Sand Specimen

Roundness description

Toilet Bowl, Oahu, Hawaii

Green Sand Beach, Hawaii

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Why? _____________________________________________

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Sand #8 - Oolitic Sand from the Great Salt Lake, Utah
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v. Paragraph on the origin of oolites. ___________________________________________________________________

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Sand #9 - Eolian Sands from Al Wasrah, Kuwait
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y. Compare the eolian sand with the beach sands. List three differences.

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Sand Specimen

Roundness description

Toilet Bowl, Oahu, Hawaii

Green Sand Beach, Hawaii

Explanation / Answer

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Heavy mineral sand from the dockweiler beach,california-

=>most of the grains give off a greenish tint.

=>it is look to be light bright bluish.

=>the magnet come to a liner position when there was a magnet.

=> these kinds of the sand is not available in the other beaches.

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Volcanic black sand from jokulska river mouth, iceland-

=> this sand is entirely made up of black volcanic glass as seen when it look under the microscope.

=>the sand have the black compositions along with the minerals like black phosphates as the by product of the volcano.

=> these kind fo rock have the basalt fragment composition in it.

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=>Toilet bowl sand roundness descriptions-

=>the sand have the roundness in the perfect order.

=> it is increadibly beautiful in the beaches and probably have the more roundeness under the microscope.

=>Green sand beaches-

=>this kind of sand have the very unique and fine texture and the compositions.

=>the sand is of green color which is found on the region away from the water contact.

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Oolitic sand-

=> these kind of sand have the dully, grey and boring texture and composition under the higher magnifications.

=>they can react and form the fizzy vigorously when they treated with the hydochloric acids.

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Ealion sand-

=> these kind of sand are of different types of the sand as it is form and deposited by the actions of the wind.

=>these kind of grain sand are often called the frosted grain sand.

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