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sand sheet

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sand sheet [′san ‚shēt]
(geology)
A thin accumulation of coarse sand or fine gravel having a flat surface.


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The two international teams found sand sheets – layers of sandy sediment rushed inland and dropped by a tsunami – beneath the layers deposited in 2004 at research sites in Thailand's Phra Thong Island, 80 miles north of Phuket, and in Aceh, Indonesia.
The Sumatra sand sheet was dated to 1290-1400 AD, and its apparent counterpart in Thailand to 1300-1450 AD.
Q My male red rump parakeet has started to tear up his sand sheet.
 
 
 
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