Pancake rocks New Zealand

by Patricia Hofmeester

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Pancake rocks New Zealand

Artist

Patricia Hofmeester

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Photograph - Photography

Description

Beautiful erosion of thousands of years water beating on rocks of Punakaiki in New Zealand.

The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki 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.

Immense water pressure caused them to solidify into layers of more resistant limestone and softer, thin, mud-rich layers.

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.

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July 20th, 2015

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