Sea worn pebbles, showing diversity of colours, mineral types


Pebbles come in various colors and textures, and can have streaks of quartz and different coloured sedimentary rock. Pebbles are mostly smooth but, dependent on how frequently they come in contact with the sea, they can have marks of contact with other rocks or other pebbles. Pebbles left above the high water mark may have growths of organisms such as lichen on them, signifying the lack of contact with seawater.


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Keywords: beach, chemistry, colours, diversity, erosion, mineral, mineralogy, pebbles, rock, sea, sedimentary, showing, types, worn