Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Pseudofossils - 12 Apostles, Victoria

I spotted some beautiful faux fossils in the sandy-limestone used to make the underpass at the 12 Apostles while I was there with the JMSS geology class a month ago. These dendritic patterns are formed by the deposition of minerals by hydrothermal fluids. They are often mistaken for plant fossils by the geologically-uneducated. Still, they're quite pretty.

Sandy-limestone? in the underpass at the 12 Apostles, Victoria.

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