Beach Sand, north Maui, Hawaii
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Location:
North coast of Maui (Hawaii), along coast road to Hana, mouth of a gorge to a short (few hundred meters) beach
Depositional facies:
Highly energetic beach
Provenance:
Hot-spot basalt
Composition:
Fine grained basalt. Plagioclase needles (microlithic structure) and clinopyroxenes swim in a hyaline, isotropic matrix
Petrographic thin section:
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Texture:
Texture of the grains, ecc.
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Comments:
Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.
