Curio Bay New Zealand II
by Joan Carroll
Title
Curio Bay New Zealand II
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Curio Bay in the Southland District of New Zealand is of international significance for its Petrified Forest dating back to the Jurassic period. To see the fossils it is best to visit at low tide. However, even if you don’t like fossils or if you tire of looking at them, Curio Bay is a great place to experience the wildness of the sea crashing against the rocky shoreline. At high tide, this entire rocky plateau up to the cliffs in the background is covered with water. But at low tide, you can study the life in the tide pools or be mesmerized by the kelp waving to and fro as the waves move in and out of this crevasse in the rocks. Walk out all the way to what appears to be a shelf at the edge of the rock plateau and appreciate nature’s power as the wind-whipped waves endlessly and relentlessly come ashore. Located near the southernmost point of the South Island, Curio Bay is one of the major attractions in the Catlins. The tree fossils found here among the rocks at low tide are approximately 170 million years old. The forest was alive when New Zealand was part of Gondwanaland. The now petrified logs were buried by ancient volcanic mud flows and gradually replaced by silica to produce the fossils now exposed by the sea at low tide. Known fossil forests of this age are very few throughout the world, and this is one of the most extensive and least disturbed of them. The overall area stretches for 20 kilometres (12 mi).
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Joan carroll, ocean, rocks, shore, coastal
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January 11th, 2019
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