This Is Pretty Cool

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.

Boru

Unlikely.

That's what I thought.

Microscopic Images of the Sands of Normandy Show Presence of War Sand

Geologist Earle McBride, from the University of Texas at Austin, states that up to 4% of the sand of the beaches of Normandy is made up of this shrapnel. The sand-sized fragments of steel are magnetic and easily discernible under a microscope. The artificial landscape of eroded machinery is still detectable using special instruments in the coastal dunes. At the present rate of deterioration, the magnetic particles will probably be wiped from the sands in another 100 years.

Boru