Tidal flat, Schillig, North Sea
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Tidal flat Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
Macro |
Location |
Barrier Island Schillig, 20 km north of Wilhelmshafen, north coast, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Depositional facies |
Tidal flat |
Provenance |
This sand probably has, like most sands in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, a long story. Abtragungsprodukte des skandinavischen Schildes (quarzreiche plutonische und metamorphe Gesteine) und |
Composition |
Almost pure, limpid quartz |
Texture |
Medium grained, well rounded, moderately sorted. This is surprising for the middle to low energetic tidal sand flat. The sample might be contaminated with sand from artificially filled beaches |
Petrographic thin section:
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Bright field Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
Dark field |
Sample number |
heubeck0132 |
Collector |
Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
Date of sampling |
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