Sand & geology
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quartz-dominant
The beach is located on the western side of the city and stretches for 13 km primarily composed of fine pebbles, but also has some sand.
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 85%
L 13%
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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