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h5. Beach Sand, Sri Lanka

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| Bentota beach \\
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{table-cell} | Garnet sand |

| *Location* \\ | Bentota River area, SW Sri Lanka |
| *Depositional facies* \\ | _replace this with text about the dep facies_ |
| *Provenance* \\ | High grade metamorphic rocks of the south indian craton |
| *Composition* \\ | Transparent pink garnet, metallic black cassiterite, ilmenite, rutile, prismatic-elongate zirconia |
| *Texture* | Medium sand (ca. 400 µ), well to moderately sorted, angular (garnet) to subangular (cassiterite) |
h6. Petrographic thin section:
| *Description* | In the bright field transparent pink garnets with characteristic high relief, opaque cassiterite, ilmenite and rutile. In the dark field the garnets appear black, the few prismatic-elongated zirconia with high relief are transparent |


h6. Petrographic thin section:

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| Bright field \\
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{table-cell} | Dark field |

| *Sample number* | heubeck0052 |
| *Collector* | Hettiavatilu | 
| *Date of sampling* | 1979 |

h6. Comments:

A heavy minerals placer, characteristic for erosion products of high grade metamorphic rocks of S India in tropic climate and under intense chemical weathering

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