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Moeraki Boulders

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    December 9, 2016

    The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides, frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

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      October 23, 2023

      The balls are very impressive and fascinating at the same time.

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        March 6, 2020

        Stone balls of various sizes, some of them broken. In some cases you can see that they are not made of the same rock. They are probably washed out of the steep bank.

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