Pancake rocks at Punakaiki on westcoast of New Zealand

by Patricia Hofmeester

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Pancake rocks at Punakaiki on westcoast of New Zealand

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Patricia Hofmeester

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Beautiful erosion of thousands of years water beating on rocks of Punakaiki in New Zealand .
The pancake rocks in Punakaiki at Dolomite Point are the most visited natural attraction on the West Coast in New Zealand. They are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes.

The foundations of the Pancake Rocks were formed 30 million years ago when minute fragments of dead marine creatures and plants landed on the seabed about 2 km below the surface.
Gradually seismic action lifted the limestone above the seabed where water, wind and salt spray eroded the softer layers leaving a "pancake" like stack of harder limestone.
Immense water pressure caused them to solidify into layers of more resistant limestone and softer, thin, mud-rich layers.

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May 9th, 2016

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