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Answered 2011-04-13 22:46:30
after 1000's of years of contastanly being hit by waves, the rocks slowly break down, and sand is the result.
if you get a really powerful blender and put rocks in it and leave it for a while, it will break down into sand
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What can igneous rock granite become?
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How does a rock become a sedimentary rock?
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What type of rock would contain a fossil?
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What type of rock is sand?
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Where was the eroded material from the shield deposited and what did this material become?
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Is sand a type of rock?
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What does sand turn into when under high pressure and high temperature?
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Is there rock in metal?
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What will happen to sand if a rock is in the sand?
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What is the difference between a sandblasted rock and rock?
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Does olivine rock form to become soil?
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What rock results when sand liquefies?
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Is sand desert sand a nonliving thing?
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it depends what type of rock you have really, if you have a rock with crystals in it wont have sand in, if you have a pourous rock it wont have sand in either, but if you have a rock with grains you may find sand in the rock! Answered by a 12 year old lolz +++ Pretty much right - well done! You do have certain types of rocks ('sedimentary rocks') with sand in them, formed from earlier deposits of sand; but the sand itself is grains of hard minerals remaining from harder rocks that have been eroded away. So the rock with crystals does not have sand in it, but when weathering breaks that rock down, the crystals are left as grains of sand.
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Is it true that sand comes from rock in the desert?
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Is a sand a solid?
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Why is there sand in the world?
sand comes mostly from rock and ground up stones, beach sand containes ground up shels as well. The earth is made of mostly rock and sand comes from rock so there you go......
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