Large spherical boulders on Otago coast, New Zealand
Boulders of varying sphericity broaching the Otago coastThe boulders at sunrise
The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. These boulders are grey-colored septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone and bedrock enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.[1][2][3][4] Especially in recent years, the boulders have been a popular tourist attraction.[3][5][6]
^Boles, J. R., C. A. Landis, and P. Dale, 1985, The Moeraki Boulders; anatomy of some septarian concretions, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, vol. 55, n. 3, p. 398-406.
^Fordyce, E., and P. Maxwell, 2003, Canterbury Basin Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Geological Society of New Zealand Annual Field Conference 2003 Field Trip 8, Miscellaneous Publication 116B, Geological Society of New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand. ISBN 0-908678-97-5
^ abForsyth, P.J., and G. Coates, 1992, The Moeraki boulders. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Information Series no. 1, (Lower Hutt, New Zealand)
^Thyne, G.D., and J.R. Boles, 1989, Isotopic evidence for origin of the Moeraki septarian concretions, New Zealand, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. v. 59, n. 2, p. 272-279.
^C. Dann and N. Peat, 1989, Dunedin, North and South Otago. GP Books. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 0-477-01438-0.
^Mutch, A. R., 1966, Moeraki Boulders in A. H. McLintock, ed., An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand.
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