Matter
- Name
- Iceland black sand (Vik)
- Family
- mineral
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Véronique Carrère
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- Vik beach, Iceland
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- superficial deposit (coastal deposit)
- Texture
- mixed granular
- Type of porosity
- particulate
- Grain sizes
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Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 125.0 ${\mu}m$ 200.0 ${\mu}m$ 0.02 None #2 200.0 ${\mu}m$ 250.0 ${\mu}m$ 0.07 None #3 250.0 ${\mu}m$ 315.0 ${\mu}m$ 0.18 None #4 315.0 ${\mu}m$ 500.0 ${\mu}m$ 7.81 None #5 500.0 ${\mu}m$ 630.0 ${\mu}m$ 24.86 None #6 630.0 ${\mu}m$ 800.0 ${\mu}m$ 38.28 None #7 800.0 ${\mu}m$ 1000.0 ${\mu}m$ 19.23 None #8 1000.0 ${\mu}m$ 1250.0 ${\mu}m$ 6.71 None #9 1250.0 ${\mu}m$ 2000.0 ${\mu}m$ 2.37 None #10 2000.0 ${\mu}m$ 0.48 None - Size method
- Analysis of grain size between 80 μm and 2 mm by dry sieving