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Concrete Wheels
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Concrete Wheels

by D.A. Edwards

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted November 1, 201418 views3 comments
Concretions on Bowling Ball Beach (Mendocino County, California) weathered out of steeply tilted Cenozoic mudstone. Each is about 2 meters in diameter.

Canon T1i, f/11, 1/80 sec., ISO-200, 55mm, handheld.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on November 1, 2014 at 7:12 AM
Giant hockey pucks sliding down a hill....how cool! The concretions are a neat find and you've spread them nicely through the frame here.
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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on November 1, 2014 at 7:08 PM
For context, here's the "Scale Figure Honey" standing next to the giant hockey pucks :cool:

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on November 2, 2014 at 4:08 AM
Wow, I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks a lot for sharing, very interesting stuff!
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