Andorra
Sand Origin
Close to church Sant Cerni de Nagol, outside Sant Julià de Lòria
Note from Collector: “The sand is mixed with probable shale and some fragments of small rocks. It’s from the Silurian period. Near the collection point is a beautiful Romanic church called Sant Cerni de Nagol. In Andorra we have mainly Paleozoic rocks (a bit metamorphosed: schists, phyllites, gneiss…), a big granite, and then quaternary deposits: moraines, tills… “
Random Sand Fact
At a miniature museum in Andorra, a bottle stands on a single grain of sand.
It is part of a permanent exhibition of fourteen microminiatures that took eight years to make, art so small it can only be seen through a microscope. The works are made of gold, platinum and natural materials and placed on hairs, seeds and in the eye of a needle.
