"This sand is from the ocean side of the barrier island at Emerald Isle, North Carolina. It's south of Cape Lookout at the south end of the Outer Banks. The sand looks pretty much the same on the bay side and on the mainland. . . Indeed, the eastern third of NC is very sandy as it's been repeatedly flooded for the last 90 million years or so. As the sediments have been reworked, eroded and redeposited for all that time, the beach is fine and white. The sandy soil extends far inland, through terrain we call the "sandhills." Pine forests abound, as does agricultural land, tobacco, and soybeans." J. Rose

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Sand sample number 23 is basically tan in color. The angularity of the individual particles is poorly sorted. The most outstanding physical characteristic of the sand is that there Is many different colors and almost looks like beach glass in the mixture.