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Where does beach sand come from?

  • Written by David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
This started as a mountain range.Bas Meelker/Shutterstock.com

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Where does beach sand come from? – Sly M., age 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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