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The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes.

The foundations of the Pancake Rocks were formed 30 million years ago when minute fragments of dead marine creatures and plants landed on the seabed about 2 km below the surface.

Immense water pressure caused them to solidify into layers of more resistant limestone and softer, thin, mud-rich layers.

Gradually seismic action lifted the limestone above the seabed where water, wind and salt spray eroded the softer layers leaving a "pancake" like stack of harder limestone.
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Source Punakaiki New Zealand
Author Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand
Camera location42° 06′ 50.59″ S, 171° 19′ 33.89″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Bernard Spragg at https://flickr.com/photos/88123769@N02/51979898647. It was reviewed on 11 October 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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