User:Diemlew/Glass Beach (Fort Bragg, California)

Composition and Impact of Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg is a prime example of something turned from a dumping site to a national treasure and popular landmark of California. The composition of Fort Bragg is something that is discussed today. The composition of Glass Beach sands include quartz, mafic minerals and feldspar intermingled with well rounded glass components of white, brown and green grains (Kerwin, 1997). Besides glass, Fort Bragg’s iconic beach  is also made up of tin pieces (Bascom 1960). In fact, the composition of Fort Bragg is so interesting that researchers are showing the benefits of creating replicated beaches like Fort Bragg in Southern California, Louisiana and Florida (Wildman 2018). The density and size of the items like tin on the beach create a sufficient and sustainable aggregate (Bascom 1960). Fort Bragg has inspired the idea using RCGC (known as recycled crushed glass cullet) as a beach aggregate (Kerwin 1997).