Beach sand, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
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Onekahakaha Beach Park (Hilo) Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
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Location |
Hilo, Onekahakaha Beach Park, Big Island, Hawaii, USA |
Depositional facies |
medium to high energy beach |
Provenance |
local mixture of offshore bivalve shells and mafic lava |
Composition |
Aragonitic (calcite ?) and phosphatic shell fragments; basaltic VRFs |
Texture |
poorly sorted, subrounded, white, brownish to red, dark gray to black, medium to coarse sand (250 to 1250 μm) |
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Bright field Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
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