Beach Sand, Kovalam Beach, Kerala State, India
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Kovalam Beach | Ilmenite, some garnet |
Location |
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Kovalam Beach, Kerala, south-west tip of India |
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Provenance:
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Depositional facies | replace this with text about the dep facies |
Provenance | High-grade metamorphic and mafic to intermediary plutonic proterozoic rocks of the indian craton |
Composition |
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Black, metallic resplendend ilmenite (ca. 70%), partly euhedral; translucent, bright green titanite (?, ca. 10%), black red to pink translucent garnet (ca. 10%), commonly zircon (colourless, long-prismatic) and quartz (colourless) | |
Texture | Fine sand (ca. 170 µ), very well sorted, well to very well rounded |
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Petrographic thin section:
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| Opaque ilmenite dominates the |
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Bright field | Dark field |
Opaque ilmenite dominates the image. This impression is reinforced in the dark field by garnets; merely some clinopyroxenes stand out with their coloures
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Texture:
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Fine sand (ca. 170 µ), very well sorted, well to very well rounded
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Sample Number:
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Sample number | heubeck0075 |
Collector |
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A. Deeken | |
Date |
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of sampling | 2004 |
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Comments:
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The existence of thorazite at Kovalam Beach is mentioned in Wikipedia, but is not certified. Famous locality for sand collectors.
The sand has been collected above the waterline
