Sand: Gignac Beach, Quebec

Beautiful pink sand from the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec (near Gignac)! I brought some of my sand collection with me when I came back to NL from Canada this Christmas because I wanted to see how it looked under the fancy microscope in our lab. So far, so cool!

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This sand was taken from the little spit across the mouth of the embayment, just off Route 132:

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