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Reasons Why Those Martian Sands Are Ooid Sand
Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:33
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A website named Sandatlas has a webpage for 20 types of sand on Earth:
Of the 20 types of sand on Earth, only ooid sand matches the sand found on Bagnold Dune in Gale Crater, Mars. Note that modern ooids are mostly shaped like fish eggs while ancient ooids may be seriously eroded. Martian ooid sands were first described in
