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World Sands Collection
The upper Daiya River, Inarimachi, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan
This is river sand beside Nikko Station of Tobu Nikko Line.  It is purplish gray sand/gravel (4.5mm or less in diameter).  The grains are mostly vesiculate andesite of purplish gray, black and brown, and you can find some deteriorated volcanic rocks of Neogene.
one scale for 1mm
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