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Sand...Lots of Sand

Source info:

Author: Garry Hayes
Date: 2012-08-07 09:08:00
Blog: Geotripper
URL: http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/08/sandlots-of-sand.html

Summary:

Wrapping up my mini-exploration of the coast of Oregon leads me to the plainest of all subjects: sand. Or maybe not the plainest. We use the grains of sand on the beaches of the world as some sort of analogy for infinity, suggesting that the diminutive grains are so common as to be hardly worth our notice. Sand is so uniform that it served as a time keeper (remember Dorothy and the witch in the

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Geographic context:

LocationCountryLatitudeLongitude
OregonUS44.1156-120.515

Keywords:

beaches, coast, common, diminutive grains, infinity, Oregon, Pistol River, sand, Sand Wrapping, witch

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