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Santa Rosa County Descriptions

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Munsell Color Classifications (pdf)

SR-01-SS
Sand; White to Yellowish Gray; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Medium; Roundness: Angular to Subrounded; Medium Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Shell-<1%, Heavy Minerals-<1%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments;
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SR-01-B
Sand; White to Yellowish Gray; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Medium; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; Medium Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Shell-<1%, Heavy Minerals-01%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments, Mollusks;
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SR-01-MB
Sand; White; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Course; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; High Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Shell-<1%, Heavy Minerals-<1%, Spar-<1%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments, Mollusks, Echinoid; Well-sorted clean sands; large fragment if echinoid (>1")
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SR-02-SS
Sand; White; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Medium to Course; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; Medium Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Shell-<1%, Heavy Minerals-<1%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments; Well-Sorted Clean sands
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SR-02-MB
Sand; White to Yellowish Gray; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Course; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; High Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Shell-<1%, Heavy Minerals-<1%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments, Echinoid;
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SR-03-SS
Sand; White; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Course; Roundness: Angular to Subrounded; Medium Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Heavy Minerals-01%;
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SR-03-MB
Sand; White; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Medium; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; High Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Heavy Minerals-<1%;
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SR-04-SS
Sand; Yellowish Gray; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Granule (2-4 mm); Roundness: Angular to Subrounded; Low Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Heavy Minerals-<1%, Shell-<1%; Fossils: Fossil Fragments;
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SR-04-MB
Sand; White to Yellowish Gray; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Medium; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; Medium Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Heavy Minerals-02%;
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SR-04-BB
Sand; White; Grain Size: Medium; Range: Fine to Course; Roundness: Angular to Rounded; Low Sphericity; Unconsolidated; Accesory Minerals: Heavy Minerals-01%; Small (~2mm) frag of corroded sheet metal; trace of carbonates
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