| Overview
This section contains brief details about my sand
collection. The collection is listed annually starting in
November 2006. At the moment details are brief, at least
until I decide on a suitable method of showing the entire
collection online, each and every sample. My sand
collection is entirely self-collected, in that each sample
is physically collected in the field personally, none of the
samples shown here have been traded in any way or have been
gifted by friends, family or fellow enthusiasts. The
collection is restricted geographically to the British Isles
and particularly Scotland. To some collectors this might
seem rather limiting but my research indicates that the
widely varied geology and abundant coastline of Scotland will keep me collecting
for many years to come. At a rough estimate it should be
relatively easy to collect well in excess of 10,000 samples
from Scotland alone. At my present rate of collecting,
that's a day a week for some 10 years. So plenty to keep me
busy as I try to achieve the collecting targets I've set
myself, first 1000 samples, then 5000 and then 10,000 samples. My
collecting is not only restricted to traditional sand, in
fact almost anything that will pass a 2.00 mm sieve is likely
to go into the collection. That includes clay, crushed rock
flour, fuel ash and so on. I've drawn the line at collecting
soil samples and processed sand but have started to include
sand made from crushed rock specimens such as sandstone,
shale and so on. |
