Beach Sand, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
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Name of sand, geographical provenance
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Location:
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Kanniyakumari Beach | Macro |
Location | Kanniyakumari Beach, Tamil Nadu, south India |
Depositional facies |
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High energetic beach, zone of surge | |
Provenance |
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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) |
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Petrographic thin section:
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Description | Quartz, garnet (pink in bright field, black in dark field), ilmenite (opaque), few calcitic shells (ostracoda?) |
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Texture:
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Texture of the grains, ecc.
Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0027 | Sample number ||
Collector | Anke Deeken | ||
Date of sampling |
| 2004 |
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Comments:
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Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.An extremely stable association
