Beach Sand, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
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Kanniyakumari Beach |
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Location:
Kanniyakumari Beach, Tamil Nadu, south India
Depositional facies:
high energetic beach, zone of surge
Provenance:
Transport and weathering resistant minerals of the south indan hinterland (Southern Granulite Terrain, Dharwar craton); granulites, charnockites
Composition:
opaque ores/heavy minerals (ilmenite), garnet, clinopyroxene, zirkonia, calcite (echinoderm plates)
Petrographic thin section:
| Quartz, garnet (pink in bright | |
Bright field |
| Dark field |
Texture:
Texture of the grains, ecc.
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Comments:
Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.
