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Subject: Why are the grains of sand so uniform in size?

Date: Tue Mar 4 20:42:16 1997
Posted by Dan Blake
Grade level: grad
School: ------none------
City: St.Petersburg State/Province: Fl.
Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 857529736.Es
Message:
Any beach, any land, seems to always have the same basic size
grains +/- a little. Where does the super small stuff go? It must
be somewhere. There seems to be a lack of this super fine dust -- 
does it end up at the bottom of the oceans? 
After hundreds of years, whouldn`t millions of waves
grind the sand on a beach to dust?  And where are all the large sand 
grains, before they get smaller? I just think sand is weird!

Re: Why are the grains of sand so uniform in size?

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