File:20150704 - 030 - Flowerpot Island, Fathom Five National Marine Park, Ont. - Large Flowerpot.jpg

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English: Seen in July 2015 is the larger of the two "flowerpots" on Flowerpot Island, part of Fathom Five National Marine Park in Ontario, Canada. These pillars of rock were carved out of the cliffs at the edge of the island through a combination of two processes: first, thousands of years of erosion by waves, ice, and wind; second, the receding of the water level in Lake Huron after the most recent Ice Age. The "flowerpots" are made up of a capstone of more resistant limestone which overlays a shaft of dolomite, a softer type of rock that dissolves more readily in water (hence the typical profile; wider at the top and gradually narrowing as you go down). As the lake levels have receded further, more rock at the base is exposed and eroded, and the "flowerpots" gradually increase in height relative to the surface.
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