Feb 11, 2023
It looks like a photo from another planet.
The beautiful Moeraki beach, New Zealand.
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It looks like a photo from another planet.
The beautiful Moeraki beach, New Zealand.
Moeraki Boulders
Boulder at Moeraki Beach, New Zealand. The whole beach is covered by nearly perfect spheres
via David_D13
That's right: giant, majestic balls. In the sand. The beach north of Moeraki on New Zealand's South Island is strewn with large, near-spherical boulders. Their origin is unclear, but the most widely accepted scientific view is that they are mineral consecrations that formed sixty million years ago in mudstones—layers of softer sedimentary rock on the seafloor. These mudstones were later uplifted and now form a cliff at the back of the beach. There, gradual erosion exposes and releases the boulders, which eventually roll down onto the beach. The boulders are up to three meters in diameter and some weigh several tons.