Rock, most of sand is quartz crystals. Other materials in the sand were once rocks that were worn down by erosion and the results are the sands on the beach and the salts in the sea.
According to Wikipdeia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand
"Sand is a granular material made up of fine mineral particles. It is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock.
Sand comprises particles, or granules, ranging in diameter from 0.0625 (or 1⁄16 mm) to 2 millimeters. An individual particle in this range size is termed a sand grain. The next smaller size class in geology is silt: particles smaller than 0.0625 mm down to 0.004 mm in diameter. The next larger size class above sand is gravel, with particles ranging from 2 mm up to 64 mm (see particle size for standards in use). Sand feels gritty when rubbed between the fingers (silt, by comparison, feels like flour). Sand is commonly divided into five sub-categories based on size: very fine sand (1/16 - 1/8 mm diameter), fine sand (1/8 mm - 1/4 mm), medium sand (1/4 mm - 1/2 mm), coarse sand (1/2 mm - 1 mm), and very coarse sand (1 mm - 2 mm). These sizes are based on the Φ sediment size scale, where size in Φ = -log base 2 of size in mm. On this scale, for sand the value of Φ varies from -1 to +4, with the divisions between sub-categories at whole numbers."
2007-09-08 18:44:58
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answered by Dan S 7
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sand comes from rock and once the rock is worn down by erosion the result comes out as sand
2014-09-04 15:50:10
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answered by david 1
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