Angular Dropstone
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(Photo by Rob Allen) |
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Another good example of a boulder sized dropstone deposited in the glacial mud. This boulder is a piece of dolomitic limestone, which forms in warm shallow seas. A current theory suggests that the earth lurched from an "icehouse" to a "greenhouse" several times between 760 million and 550 million years ago. This might explain why limestone blocks with fossil algae called stromatolites are embebbed in the glacial mud. |