Sugar sand explained

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 of South Jersey in 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: How to Tap Maple Trees and Make Maple Syrup. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension. 2007. Bud. Blumenstock. Kathy. Hopkins. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081118152823/http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/PDFpubs/7036.pdf. 2008-11-18.
2. 10.1021/ja02220a024. "sugar Sand" from Maple Sap; A Source of Malic Acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 33. 7. 1205–1211. 1911. Warren. W. H..
3. Web site: Legends of the Blue Hole . Weird N.J. . 1 May 2015.
4. News: 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 .