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EXTRACTION
Flora and fauna
Stone, sand and gravel
Minerals
Marine resources
Coastal resources
Fuels
main image Sand and gravel pit, Happendon, Lanarkshire
Scotland is well-endowed with sand and gravel resources, thanks to alluvial deposits and, more significantly, those left by glaciation.

As deposits are superficial, extraction has fewer long-term consequences for the landscape than stone quarrying.

The demand for this material is driven by their use in concrete, as aggregates in construction.


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