Fontainebleau sand | SSTONE | SSHADE

Matter

Name: Fontainebleau sand

Family: mineral

Owner of matter

Database

SSTONE

Experimentalists

Véronique Carrère

Level: from sample return mission
Origins: natural terrestrial
Provider: Véronique Carrère

Body name: Earth
Place: Fontainebleau , Île-de-France, Seine-et-Marne , France

Matter preparation and component types

Preparation: raw
Phase type: solid
Component type (group): superficial deposit (coastal deposit)

Matter shape and texture

Texture: mixed granular
Type of porosity: particulate

Grain sizes

Grains	Size min	Size max	Size median	Size width	Size mass fraction	Grain shape
#1	80.0 ${\mu}m$	100.0 ${\mu}m$			0.1	None
#2	100.0 ${\mu}m$	125.0 ${\mu}m$			1.51	None
#3	125.0 ${\mu}m$	200.0 ${\mu}m$			46.37	None
#4	200.0 ${\mu}m$	250.0 ${\mu}m$			35.26	None
#5	250.0 ${\mu}m$	315.0 ${\mu}m$			15.44	None
#6	315.0 ${\mu}m$	500.0 ${\mu}m$			1.3	None
#7	500.0 ${\mu}m$	630.0 ${\mu}m$			0.02	None
#8	630.0 ${\mu}m$	800.0 ${\mu}m$			0.01	None

Size method

Analysis of grain size between 80 μm and 2 mm by dry sieving

Materials in matter

Number

1

Mode of mixing

heterogeneous mixing

Materials

	Name	Arrangement	Mass (g)	Mass fraction	Abundance comments
	Fontainebleau sand			1.0