Beach Sand, Sri Lanka
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Bentota beach |
| Garnet sand |
Location |
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Bentota River area, SW Sri Lanka | |
Depositional facies |
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Provenance:
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Provenance | High grade metamorphic rocks of the south indian craton |
Composition |
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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) |
Petrographic thin section:
| In the bright field transparent pink |
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Bright field |
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Sample number | heubeck0052 | ||
Collector | Hettiavatilu | ||
Date of sampling | heubeck0052 | Hettiavatilu | 1979 |
Comments:
Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.A heavy minerals placer, characteristic for erosion products of high grade metamorphic rocks of S India in tropic climate and under intense chemical weathering
