Huge spherical boulders 'Moeraki Boulders' on Koekohe Beach are scattered on the Otago coast between Moeraki and Hampden, South Island,NZ

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According to Maori legend, the boulders are gourds washed ashore from the great voyaging canoe Araiteuru when it was wrecked upon landfall in New Zealand hundreds of years explain the boulders as calcite concretions formed about 65 million years ago. Crystallization of calcium and carbonates around charged particles gradually formed the boulders in a pearl-like process that took as long as four million years.

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Location: Moeraki Boulders,Koekohe Beach, North Otago coast,South Island,New Zealand
Photo credit: © Gary Blake / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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