Meanings of granitic sand in English

The grass is short and thick, yet the upper stratum of earth furnishes only a dry and parched granitic sand.

The character of the country changed very little: open narrow-leaved Ironbark forest on a granitic sand, full of brilliant leaflets of mica.

Calcareous mountains, devoid of vegetable earth, summits covered with granitic sand, the high savannahs of the Cordilleras,* (* Los Pajonales, from paja, straw.