Beach Sand, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
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Kanniyakumari Beach |
Macro |
Location |
Kanniyakumari Beach, Tamil Nadu, south India |
Depositional facies |
High energetic beach, zone of surge |
Provenance |
Transport and weathering resistant minerals of the south indan hinterland (Southern Granulite Terrain, Dharwar craton); granulites, charnockites |
Composition |
Opaque ores/heavy minerals (ilmenite), garnet, clinopyroxene, zirkonia, calcite (echinoderm plates) |
Texture |
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Petrographic thin section:
Description |
Quartz, garnet (pink in bright field, black in dark field), ilmenite (opaque), few calcitic shells (ostracoda?) |
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Bright field |
Dark field |
Sample number |
heubeck0027 |
Collector |
Anke Deeken |
Date of sampling |
2004 |
Comments:
An extremely stable association
