Outdoor Professsor's Tips

  Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/  Here's your outdoor tip on sand. Sand frequently goes with the outdoors and water.  I’ve enjoyed the white sand of the Gulf Coast many times, but some of my most pleasant experiences have been squeaking through the sand while camping on remote river sandbars.  We take sand for granted with it getting in our hair, clothes and food during a picnic at the beach.  But sand can have an interesting history. Sand is granular material composed of fine rock and mineral particles normally defined finer than gravel and more coarse than silt.  The composition of sand is dependent on local rock sources and conditions, but inland or non-tropical sand is normally made of silica, a form of quartz.  The second most common type of sand is calcium carbonate created by millions of years of life forms such as coral and shellfish. Sand particle size ranges in diameter from .0625mm or 1/16 mm to 2mm according to geologi