The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki, New Zealand, are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through blowholes. The foundations of the Pancake Rocks were formed 30 million years ago when fragments of dead marine creatures and plants covered the seafloor. 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. Credit: BSpragg

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Location: New Zealand, Punakaiki
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