MYSTERIES IN MOERAKI BOULDERS

                                                   MOERAKI BOULDERS 

The Moeraki boulders are group of large spherical stones on koekohe beach near Moeraki on New zealand. These boulders are concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs.The boulders are still fasinating and popular attarctions on south island.

     They originally started forming in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago and the largest boulders are estimated to have taken about 4 million years to get to their original size.

Some of the boulders weigh several tones and the largest one can be over from 2 metre wide. Maori legend tells that the boulders are remain of calabashes,kumaras and eel basket that washed ashore after the legendary canoe.

Their reticulating patterning on the boulders,according to the legend,are the remains of the canoe's fishing nets.


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