A photo from open sources 80 kilometers north of Dunedin (New Zealand), between the towns of Palmerstone and Hampden is located Moeraki – the most famous on the southeast coast of the South Island Moeraki Boulders – Real Natural phenomenon. Huge, diameter up to two to three meters, spherical boulders of almost perfect shape, weighing up to 4 tons each. The magnificent creation of nature, which before still remains a mystery to all. It is believed that they are at least 60 million years Huge, spherical boulders, like peas, are scattered across the sandy coast. Some hide under water at high tide others are thrown far to land. Legend of Maori, an indigenous people New Zealand states that stones were mysteriously thrown away ashore from some huge canoe that crashed. Than not version of primitive people about the visit of aliens? Especially if look closely at the stones themselves, you can see and scale formed on capsules after passing the earth atmosphere.
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And the shell, cracked from this heat, and the body itself, with applied to it by a grid of regular hexagons. In some the balloons remained open entrances through which aliens (possibly) left their capsules.
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Modern research has shown that boulders are giants Consist of dirt held together by quartz. And their age totals millions of years. Maori then just was not on the islands of New Zealand.
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The structure of the stones is very interesting. Some of the stones resemble shell of a huge turtle. Others are absolutely smooth and shiny. Still others are black, as if covered with a burnt crust. On the cracked stones visible brown crystals. These spheres (Moeraki Boulders) originated many millions ago as a result of the natural radial cementing of porous fine-grained sedimentary rocks (clay or sand).
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According to scientists, over millions of years around the core gradually processes of compaction, cementation, nodule and crystallization of minerals. About 15 million years ago in the Miocene period, the bottom of the ocean rose, and the forces of erosion began their work on the formation of a new landscape. As a result, they were washed out of the ground. previously formed solid spherical formations that turned out to be lying on the shores of the modern Pacific Ocean in New Zealand. In some places there are places where these stones have just appeared from the thickness of a steep coast. Boulders can be found not only on coast near Moeraki, but also on neighboring Step Point.
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