The beaches with black sand are volcanic in origin.
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Sand While most of the beaches in the Caribbean have white sand there are a few with yellow-gold sand. Which is why those are called "Caribbean Gold" Letβs look at the standard, gold-color beaches, which can be found in Southern Europe. Their sand is formed of quartz, which contains traces of iron that give the yellow/gold color. Quartz without those impurities forms white sand. This is common in beaches in tropical regions such as Cape Santa Maria in the Bahamas or those beaches found on Caribbean Islands.
It depends on the soil. There is red clay soil, brown sandy soil, and dark brown/black earthy soil. There are white sand beaches, black sand beaches and there are even a few beaches with green sand.
The Parrot fishit eats plankton and poops out sandduring its lifetime it can change its shape, color, and genderis known for making sand in the caribbean
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Some beaches with black sand may be due to 'stamp sand', leftover material from copper ore crushing processes near bodies of water.
Iron-sand
Because they are made of black volcanic sand rather than white coral sand or white quartz/limestone sand. However, Japan has also many white sand beaches, which are made of white coral sand (southern islands) and white quartz/limestone sand (peninsulas on mainlands). White sand beaches in Japan: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ippei-janine/sets/72157600321338295/ There are also black sand beaches in volcanic countries such as Hawaii and Iceland.
You can find Cancun and the Mayan Riviera: beaches of white sand in front of a beautiful, emerald sea.
Black sand is sand that's been turned a black color either by a glossy partly-magnetic mix of sands (usually fine), or by tiny fragments of lava.Some gold and white beaches can also contain black sand, typically after storms have sorted out grains where heavier, darker particles remain on the surface.There are many black sand beaches around the world. Prince William Sound, in Alaska, and Lost Coast, California, both have black sand beaches named Black Sand Beach. Hawaii has Kehena Beach, Oneuli Beach, Polulu Valley Beach and Kaimu Beach. Maui hosts Oneuli Beach, Honokalani Black Sand Beach and Waianapanapa Black Sand Beach. Finally, Vik Beach in Iceland has some breathtakingly blue water surrounded by eroded rock formations beyond a beach of black sand.For more black sand beaches, try a Web or Image search on Google or your favorite search engine for black sand beach. You'll be stunned by some of the amazing photos.
Sand on beaches came from RIVERS.
Its beautiful, white sand beaches along the Caribbean Sea qualify as such.