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Different Beaches Are Made of Different Kinds of Materials

"Along the boundary between land and sea the solid underlying rock is covered with a layer of rock fragments. These fragments range in size from fine sand to large cobbles, in thickness from a few inches to hundreds of feet, in color from clear white to opaque black. These are beach materials. Every coastal dweller in the world is quite sure he knows what a beach is like. Yet if you were to ask, you would find totally different opinions, and all derived from local experience." - excerpt from the book, Waves and Beaches, by Willard Bascom, Anchor Books, 1980, pg. 247.

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