0052 Beach Sand, Sri Lanka


Bentota beach		Garnet sand

Bentota River area, SW Sri Lanka

High grade metamorphic rocks of the south indian craton

Transparent pink garnet, metallic black cassiterite, ilmenite, rutile, prismatic-elongate zirconia

	In the bright field transparent pink garnets with characteristic high relief, opaque cassiterite, ilmenite and rutile. In the dark field the garnets appear black, the few prismatic-elongated zirconia with high relief are transparent
Bright field		Dark field

Im Hellfeld transparent-rosa Granat mit charakteristisch narbig-hohem

Relief, opake Kassiterit, Ilmenit, und Rutil. Im Dunkelfeld sind die Granate schwarz auslöschend, die

wenigen prismatisch-länglichen Zirkone mit hohem Relief aber transparent.

Texture of the grains, ecc.

Sample number	Collector	Date of sampling

Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.