Sand & geology
Playa de Las Canteras
golden sandlithic-rich (volcanic/collisional terrane)
Oriented to the northwest, it lies within the bay known as El Confital and stretches for just over three kilometres of fine golden sand, from the foothills of La Isleta to near the mouth of the Tamaraceite ravine.
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.
F 24%
L 68%
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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Playa de Las Canteras28.1395, -15.4398