Sand & geology
Crane Beach
feldspar-rich (plutonic/crystalline terrane)
It consists of a four-mile-long (6 km) sandy beachfront, dunes, and a maritime pitch pine forest.
Extracted from Wikipedia.
Predicted regional composition
Q-F-L (quartz, feldspar, lithic) fractions sampled from the GloPrSM global sand model at this beach's location.
Q 40%
F 40%
L 20%
GloPrSM v1.0.0 (IJ_QFL). GloPrSM is calibrated on modern river sand; beach sand in the same watershed is a reasonable proxy but not identical.
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Crane Beach42.6862, -70.7662