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World Sands Collection
Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape province, South Africa
This beach is a popular tourist place because of a colony of Jackass Penguins.  This white sand is well-sorted medium sand (0.2-0.5mm in diameter).  It consists of quartz with very small amount of seashells or sea urchine spines.
one scale for 1mm
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