But the ingredients really are beach sand, energy and some know how and not a great deal else.
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Vaguely analogous to grains of green Hawaiian beach sand, chondrules are arguably the glue needed to make planets like ours.
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Storm waves and high winds have washed away thousands of tonnes of beach sand in front of the launching area for a Norfolk lifeboat.
After all, an ingot of silicon is made by taking beach sand and a bit of energy: add a bit of care and attention and there you are.
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So in late 1997, when the navy began dredging 9m cubic yards of sand from San Diego harbour, a ready-made solution seemed at hand: the dredgings would more than replace the beach sand lost over the past decade.
It turned out that the concrete was made using beach-sand that was not properly desalinated, rather than more expensive quarry-sand.
Habitats in the biosphere reserve comprise barrier islands, beach and sand dunes, salt marshes, maritime forests, tidal creeks, fresh and brackish water impoundments and open water areas.
You can "hold the line" with expensive sea walls, retreat and leave the beach, or compromise with sand dunes and beach replenishing.
From here, a short stroll along a white-sand beach offers a good view of Hangman Island.
The white sand beach faces a small, lagoon-style bay that's great for swimming.
Komodo Island is also distinguished by its pink sand beach, one of only seven in the world.
Papara's black-sand beach picks up the south swell, and waves range from small and gentle to overhead, big and fast (check local conditions).
Mr. JOSEPH MAHSOUD (Jieh Resort Owner): (Through Translator) The fuel is all over the water and the beach and the sand.
Just before the highway's end, we turned into Wai'anapanapa State Park, which has a small black sand beach, and hiked to a cave.
Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.
At the nearby sand beach, the Ortiz family, which survives through fishing, carefully calculates what they must consume and what they can afford to sell.
Walking along a quiet stretch of white-sand beach, I've come to appreciate this remote retreat of old-school fishermen, miles of mangroves and spectacular ocean views.
It kicks off with a beach party and culminates with a Caribbean-style Fat Tuesday of dinner, dancing and a live steel band on a white sand beach.
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We can see the ad, photos of models, a video trailer at a black-sand beach in Hawaii, and what would be called, on a DVD, a bonus feature on the making of the video.
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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.
The black sand beach here is slim and runs directly next to the main road so it is not a great place to bring young kids - the beach can disappear entirely at certain points during high tide.
The beach they go to has real sand, lots of it, with blankets and beach umbrellas, salt water, a refreshment stand, seagulls, dead crabs, sandbars, waves.
Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, Brancaster beach is backed by sand dunes and a golf course.
Engineers say the beach once had more sand but it has been washed away over the past few decades.
Beyond the pool deck lies 1, 000ft of Cable Beach's soft sand.
The simple sandals can also shield feet against the beach's hot sand, which might otherwise cause skin to burn and blister on your walk to the water.
The beach is sheltered by sand dunes overgrown with juniper bushes, and at one point runs between the sea and a saltwater lagoon that is often home to flocks of flamingos.
One of the reasons why Plakias and other southern getaways have remained relatively immune from mass tourism is the terrific summer wind that roars through everything, pelting beach-goers with sand and whipping up whitecaps on the sea.
Winds raked the beachfront in Point Pleasant Beach, blowing drifts of sand onto Ocean Avenue, and shredding the decorative entrance canopy at a hotel across the street from the beach.
On the Jersey Shore, winds raked the beachfront in Point Pleasant Beach, blowing drifts of sand onto Ocean Avenue, and shredding the decorative entrance canopy at a hotel across the street from the beach.
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