“Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually”
Jimi Hendrix
Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
Description: In 2007 Time magazine nominated Sumgayit as the “seventh most polluted place in the world”, for it’s factories, heavy metal pollution and the estimated 120,000 tones of pollution released every year....
World Sand Database
Sand is a wonderfully interesting substance. What else can you hold in the palm of your hard that literally could have come from every corner of the global, be as old (or older) than the dinosaurs and yet be used as a backdrop for romantic and childhood holidays?
Read MoreHandbook of Sand
Sand is ubiquitous, it’s literally everywhere. From the frozen poles, to lush tropical rainforests to every place between, there isn’t a region of the Earth that is touched by these free roaming, loose and unconsolidated particles.
Surprisingly, there isn’t an official definition of the material nature of sand, but rather a description based on the particle size itself. Sand can best be defined as:
Read MoreGallery of Sands
