USA
Sand Origin
Sentinel Butte Formation, Mackenzie Country, ND*
*OUAW’s jewelry with worldwide sand, holding every nation, has a mix of sand from all US states but Hawaii as a USA-sand. Hawaii is excluded due to Hawaiian traditions and nowadays also rules regarding its sand.
Here sand deposited by a river some 57 million years ago, collected by North Dakota’s Geological Survey, McKenzie County, gets to represent all.
Random Sand Fact
Sand for drying ink?
Each of the 100 desks in the United States Senate still has a small sand shaker. Senators once sprinkled fine sand over freshly written documents to absorb the ink and make it dry faster.
Pens and paper changed. The sanders remained.
