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Beach
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Sand,
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Kanniyakumari,
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Tamil
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Nadu,
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India
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Kanniyakumari Beach | Macro |
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) |
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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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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0027 |
Collector | Anke Deeken |
Date of sampling | 2004 |
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Comments:
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An extremely stable association
