The Moeraki Boulders are a group of very large spherical “stones” on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand’s Otago coast. Captions: Moeraki Boulders. Photo source: ©© Samuel Mann
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The Māoris explained the presence of almost perfectly spherical boulders on Koekohe Beach, on the South island of New Zealand, as eel baskets washed up from an enormous, sunken canoe.
But the science behind the unusual rocks is much stranger.
The Moeraki Boulders, measuring up to three metres in diameter, were in fact formed from ancient sea sediments around 60 million years ago…
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These boulders are concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs that back the beach. Captions: Moeraki Boulders. Photo source: ©© Ed Clayton
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Some of the boulders weigh several tonnes and are up to 3 metres in diametre. Captions: Moeraki Boulders. Photo source: ©© Jeremy Taylor
