sand - dune sand - orange-pink frosted sand derived from the Navajo Sandstone - 250 ml display bottle with ground glass stopper Utah this sandstone is 2

Utah this sandstone is 2

We have student and hand specimens of the Navajo Sandstone in stock

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The frosted quartz grains are characteristic of the Navajo Sandstone - the quartz grains essentially sandblasted each other as they were transported by the wind and deposited in dunes

sand - dune sand - orange-pink frosted sand derived from the Navajo Sandstone - 250 ml display bottle with ground glass stopper Utah this sandstone is 2This interesting sand was derived from the Navajo Sandstone which makes up the cross bedded cliffs at Zion National Park in Utah and which is widely distributed in southern Utah outside of the park. The sand grains are entirely frosted quartz. Transported from the Appalachians by a continent spanning river system, the Navajo was deposited during the Jurassic as sand in a vast coastal and inland dune field, which subsequently became lithified into a