sand - orange-tan dune sand with iron-oxide coated grains derived from the Navajo sandstone in the San Rafael Swell - 250 ml display bottle with ground glass stopper We have student and hand

We have student and hand specimens of the Navajo Sandstone in stock

similar in size to the grains in the pink dune sand that is derived from the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Utah

Not the dense Irish peat that is no longer being used as a fuel

but in areas the garnet has been concentrated by wave action

The sand grains are entirely frosted quartz

sand - orange-tan dune sand with iron-oxide coated grains derived from the Navajo sandstone in the San Rafael Swell - 250 ml display bottle with ground glass stopper We have student and handTransported from the Appalachians by a continent spanning river system, the Navajo was deposited during the Jurassic as sand in a vast coastal and inland dune field, which subsequently became lithified into a sandstone. Near Hurricane, Utah this sandstone is 2,400 feet thick. It is weathering and forming new dunes where it is picked up by the wind and redeposited. A hematite coating gives this quartz sand its color. The Navajo sandstone is widely