An arenophile is one who collects sand samples, the interest of the hobby lying in the variety of texture, colour, mineralogy and place of origin. The...

is typically rounded. People who collect sand as a hobby are known as arenophiles. Organisms that thrive in sandy environments are psammophiles. Abrasion:...

October 2017) was a British petroleum geologist and expert on sand (an arenophile). His book Sand: a journey through science and the imagination, won the...