Why are there gravel beaches? In thousands of years of waves crashing on the beach shouldn’t all the gravel have become sand?

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Why are there gravel beaches? In thousands of years of waves crashing on the beach shouldn’t all the gravel have become sand?

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Not a natural thing, but In the UK, some of our beaches have had gravel dumped on them to help stop erosion,. Used to have sand down south and now we have lovely lumpy gravel.