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World Sands Collection
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, Russian Federation
This sand was picked up at the beach facing the Pacific.  It is dark gray medium/coarse-sized sand.  It consists of andesite, feldspar, pyroxene, quartz, olivine and so on.  The grains are 0.3-0.8mm in diameter, and they are well rounded.
one scale for 1mm
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