River sand - Kasenzuna

Japanese: 河川砂 - かせんずな
River sand - Kasenzuna

…Currently, most natural sand used as aggregates coexists with natural gravel and is collected as a product of dry or wet sieving of gravel. Depending on the place of origin, i.e., the place of deposition, it is classified as sea sand, river sand (river sand), land sand, and mountain sand, but there is also sand obtained from the weathered parts of granite or weathered deposits, i.e., "masa" or "masado", and dam deposit sand. The average sand content in natural gravel (as a gravel/sand mixture) is about 30% for river and land gravel, about 80% for mountain gravel, and over 95% for sea gravel, which is about 50% of the total natural gravel (all by weight). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "river sand" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現在,骨材等に利用されている天然砂はほとんどが天然砂利と共存しており,砂利採取の乾式または湿式ふるい分け産物として回収される。産地すなわち堆積地によって,海砂,川砂(河川砂),陸砂(おかずな),山砂に区分されるが,ほかに花コウ岩風化部分,または風化堆積物から得られる砂,すなわち〈まさ〉または〈まさ土(ど)〉や,ダム堆積砂がある。天然砂利(砂利・砂混合物としての)における砂含有率の平均は,河川および陸砂利で約30%,山砂利は約80%,海砂利は95%以上で,天然砂利総計の約50%(いずれも重量比)である。…

※「河川砂」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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