Silica Sand
Calcareous Sand
Green Sand
Black Sand
100
A common mineral found in the makeup of Silica Sand
What is Quartz?
100
The Mineral Composition of Limestone
What are calcium carbonate minerals (calcite, etc.)
100
The major mineral in the composition of green sand
What is olivine?
100
A mineral commonly found in Black Sand Beaches
What is Magnetite?
200
Types of erosion that occurred to sand in Siesta Key
What is wind and tides
200
The source of calcite and other calcium carbonate minerals
What is coral and other once living organisms?
200
The reason olivine stays on beaches longer than other minerals.
What is density due to iron and magnesium content?
200
The cause of the formation of Black sand in Mauna Loa Beach, HI
What is lava flows?
300
The year Siesta Key Won the Great International White Sand Beach Challenge
What is 1987
300
Can be found in layers with limestone
What is dolomite?
300
The reason green sand beaches will not exist forever.
What is erosion of cinder cone?
300
A defining quality of Magnetite
What is magnetic, metallic, or octahedral?
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