Basaltic sand from Hawaii (grains smaller than 109 µm) | BYPASS

Matter

Database

Experimentalists

Body name: Earth
Place: Collected from the active dunes in the Kau Desert region, Hawaii, USA , Hawaii , United States

Optical microscope picture of grains of the Hawaii basaltic sand (less than 109 µm)

Grain sizes

Grains	Size min	Size max	Size median	Size width	Size mass fraction	Grain shape
#1		109.0 ${\mu}m$			1.0	None

Size method

dry sieving

Number

Mode of mixing

homogeneous mixing

Materials

	Name	Arrangement	Mass (g)	Mass fraction	Abundance comments
	Basalt			1.0

Title

Dry sieving to less than 109 µm particles size range

Matters

Matter

Basaltic sand from Hawaii (grains smaller than 109 µm) (this matter)

Processing steps

Step	Date	Type	Process	Changes
#1		mechanical	dry sieving using a 109-µm mesh sieve	only the grains smaller than 109 µm were collected