
Green sand beach
by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
A green sand beach at Pachia Ammos, Tinos island, Greece. Usually green sand beaches are formed by the erosion of olivine; weather this is the case with this one, I do not know.
Taken on 8
November
2009
Submitted on 21 Aug 2009
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- Exact location (25.2303 E, 37.5429 N)
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