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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soft sandy tourist beaches have sand dredged from off the coast to make it more accessible for recreation.

places like clearwater beach area good example, it has some of the softest sand you can walk on and they spend good time and money dredging it into a long strip along the water for beachgoers and tourists.