Beach Sand, Cape Town, South Africa
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South view |
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Macro |
Location:
Blouberg Beach, 15 km north of Cape Town, South Afrika
Depositional facies:
Beach
Provenance:
Mixture of hinterland dunes and shallow water carbonate grains
Composition:
Quartz, aragonite, siliceous sponge needles
Petrographic thin section:
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Mixture of siliceous (quartz, |
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Texture:
Medium grained, subangular, poorly sorted
Sample number |
Collector |
Date of sampling |
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Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
14. August 1992 |
Comments:
Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.
