Why Are Bermuda's Beaches Pink?

By A Mystery Man Writer

The most concise explanation is that when single-celled organisms with red-colored shells (foraminifera, often called foram for short) that reside in the ocean die, they’re combined with the sand before washing up on the shoreline as pink. Their redness mixed with neutral hues in the sand—born out of quartz—is what makes the sand pink.

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