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name: "Magnified Sand"
subtitle: "One-person archive of sand from around the world, photographed under a microscope"
date: 2026-05-03
link: https://magnifiedsand.com/
source: "Recomendo"
topics: [general-delight]
tags: [website, science, archive]
---

A labor-of-love site by a single collector who photographs sand samples from beaches all over the world at high magnification. What looks like a uniform tan blanket from a meter up turns out, in the microscope, to be a constantly varying mix of crushed quartz, pulverized shells, volcanic glass, and tiny fossils — every beach has a different signature, and the gallery makes that legible.
