SOME METHODS TO STUDY SURFACE TEXTURES OF SAND GRAINS

For the study of the surface textures of quartz sand grains the normal microscope was used, besides the sofar generally applied electron microscope, and a new method was developed for using incident illumination. Grains from a desert sand and a river sand were studied, the former grains displayed textures not described yet by previous authors, the latter grains possessed a variety of textures, some of which have been found with beach sand grains, others with glacial sand grains by previous investigators.