Sand & geology

Poetto

white sandquartz-dominant

However, the result was not as successful as expected: the white, fine-grained sand was replaced by sand of a completely different color, size and consistency.

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 79%
F 11%
L 10%

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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