Beach Sand, Leucate Plage
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Leucate Beach |
Macro |
Location |
Leucate - Plage, S France, S of Perpignan, Mediterranean |
Depositional facies |
Broad, open, gently inclined beach with coarse sand |
Provenance |
Rhone, Alpine, Pyrenees, Cap de Creuz |
Composition |
Cloudy quartz; black amphibole or metamorph fine grained schist; yellowish carbonate fragments (bivalves?); white plagioclase; few coarse grained limpid quartz |
Texture |
Medium grained, well sorted, very well rounded beach sand |
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Sample number |
heubeck0053 |
Collector |
Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
Date of sampling |
April 2001 |
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