This close-up shows a beach with rare green sand created by fragmented crystals of olivine, a mineral from a lava cinder cone that formed during an eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano about 49,000 years ago near the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii in Hawaii, USA. Papakōlea Beach, also known as Mahana Beach, is more commonly called Green Sand Beach and is one of just four beaches in the world that appear green because of the large amount of dense glassy olivine crystals that make up most of the sand.
This close-up shows a beach with rare green sand created by fragmented crystals of olivine, a mineral from a lava cinder cone that formed during an eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano about 49,000 years ago near the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii in Hawaii, USA. Papakōlea Beach, also known as Mahana Beach, is more commonly called Green Sand Beach and is one of just four beaches in the world that appear green because of the large amount of dense glassy olivine crystals that make up most of the sand.
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Location: Papakōlea Green Sand Beach, near South Point, Big Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
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