Curio Bay New Zealand

by Joan Carroll

Title

Curio Bay New Zealand

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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Curio Bay is a great place to visit at low tide (as seen here), where you can experience the wildness of the sea crashing against the rocky shoreline. Walk out to what appears to be a shelf on the shoreline and be mesmerized by the wind-whipped waves endlessly and relentlessly coming ashore. But if you are also interested in fossils, Curio Bay in the Southland District of New Zealand is of international significance for its Petrified Forest dating back to the Jurassic period. 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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