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| me at Elephant Rocks |
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| Malcolm at Elephant Rocks |
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| fossilised whale skeleton (with a couple of more recent bones) |
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| Malcolm at Earthquakes |
We had a geological morning visiting some sites on the
Vanished World trail in the Waitake Valley.
First we visited Elephant Rocks - an area of weathered limestone lumps
which are quite surreal. Next stop,
Anatini where the fossilised skeleton of a baleen whale can be seen (behind
perspex) - the rocks here are weirdly eroded too. Third site, Earthquakes, was so named because
people thought the huge chunks of rock had been shaken from the cliff in
earthquakes - but that didn't happen.
They fell from cliffs when the land slumped thousands of years ago. There was another fossil whale here, behind a
steel grill. We drove past some other
stuff but you would have to be really keen on geology to stop at them all.
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