[NatureNS] Pink sands

Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:52:34 -0300
From: Jamie Simpson <jsimpson@win.eastlink.ca>
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This may not be totally germane but when Anne of Green Gables asked Matthew 
why PEI soil was so red he told her he thought it might be 'the iron in the 
soil getting rusty...'


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From: "Harold Forsyth" <harold.forsyth@ns.sympatico.ca>
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>I believe the pink hue of the sands comes from potassium feldspar which has 
>eroded from the underlying granite along with other feldspars, mica and 
>quartz to combine into the beautiful sandy beaches of Keji Adjunct.
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