Sugar sand

Sugar sand may refer to:

  • Sugar sand, the organic salt debris that settles to the bottom of a container of maple sap once it has reached a sugar concentration of 66-67%.[1][2]
  • Sugar sand, the local name for a type of fine sandy soil found in the Pine Barrens, the southern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3]
    • Sugar sand, a soil type that is a component of traditional Baseball Rubbing Mud, eroded from the Pine Barrens, used by Major League Baseball as an abrasive to condition new baseballs.[4]
  • Sugar sand, a type of granular calcite found as an identifying marker bed in the Pfeifer shale member of the Greenhorn Limestone in Ellis, Ness, Hodgeman, and other Kansas counties.[5]
  • Sugar Sand Park, a municipal park in Boca Raton, Florida.
  1. ^ Blumenstock, Bud; Hopkins, Kathy (2007). "How to Tap Maple Trees and Make Maple Syrup" (PDF). The University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-18.
  2. ^ Warren, W. H. (1911). ""sugar Sand" from Maple Sap; A Source of Malic Acid". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 33 (7): 1205–1211. doi:10.1021/ja02220a024.
  3. ^ "Legends of the Blue Hole". Weird N.J. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. ^ Barbara, Philip (14 September 2005). "Magic Mudhole Is Game's Big Secret". Reuters.
  5. ^ Moss, Rycroft G. (1932). "The Geology of Ness and Hodgeman Counties, Kansas (Part III: Stratigraphy: Rocks Exposed)". Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 19.