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h5. Ooid Sand, Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA

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| *Location:* | South coast of Great Salt Lake; Saltaire Beach Resort near exit of I-80; 40º44'51.98"N,112º11'16.92"W |
| *Depositional facies:* | Low energy beach; possibly episodical reworking in small beach dunes |
| *Provenance:* | Local shallow water formation; precipitation of CaCO3 in evaporatively oversaturated water through microbial participation; input of crystal nuclei through eolian or fluvial processes |
| *Composition:* | Carbonate envelope around a detrital nucleus |
| *Texture:* | High textural maturity: very well sorted and rounded, high sphaericity (partly elongate-ellipsoidal), whitish surface, fine sand (160 to 250 μm) |

h6. Petrographic thin sections:
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| *Sample number:* | heubeck0016 |
| *Collector:* | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
| *Date of sampling:* | 1991 |

h6. Comments:
Texturelle Reife nicht durch Transport, sondern durch Bildungsbedingungen. Wachstum erst in der Wassersäule, dann möglicherweise Fortsetzung am Grund. Ansammlung durch Strömung und Wellengang in seichten Buchten. Vorkommen von Radial- und Tangentialooiden.