Stay-at-Home Day Seventeen, Saturday 11 April 2020: Stone Seventeen

Stone Sixteen.

Stone Fifteen.

Stone Fourteen.

Stone Thirteen.

Stone Twelve.

Stone Seventeen is a newly polished fossilised worm cast stone found on Gemstone Beach just over a month ago. 

Stone Seventeen.

Stone Seventeen is larger than a $2 coin.

Stone Seventeen.

Stone Seventeen.

Compared to Stone Fifteen, another worm cast stone, the traces are a different colour (dark brown) as is the stone (a greener grey). There are numerous traces across all of the stone’s surface, some of them chevron shaped but others a more solid trail.

Stone Seventeen detail.

Stone Seventeen detail.

I “pushed” the colour of the photos, using the “saturation” option in my Picasa photo software, with the following results:

Stone Seventeen.

Stone Seventeen detail, with saturated colour.

Stone Seventeen detail, with saturated colour.

Stone Seventeen.

The green has taken on a more lime hue and the traces are more purple in tone.

Together, Stones Fifteen and Seventeen demonstrate some of the wide variation amongst fossilised worm cast stones on the southern beaches between Orepuki and Riverton.

Stone Fifteen.

Stone Seventeen.

The next Post in this Series is Stay-at-Home Day Eighteen, Easter Sunday 12 April 2020: Stone Eighteen.

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