Sand Reflection

In the sand lab, I was very interested by the features of the sand. It is cool to see that there is more to the sand than meets the eye. There are many different things to look at when observing the sand. The catagories include size, shape,texture, magnitude, composition, and color. Most sand was well sorted. There was alot that was composed of rock and some had shell pieces and coral also. On the Wentworth scale, most of the sand was one mm big. Many of the sand samples that I observed came from continental crust and areas where the waves were more calm, resulting in angular shape and light colors. Looking at the sand through the microscope was very cool. I took the picture below of sand from Cancun, Mexico.