I spent 90 minutes at low tide at Gemstone Beach on Te Waewae Bay today. There was a lot more sand and stretches of tiny stones than previous days, but still lots of good-sized stones as I walked westwards.
Large stretch of sand just to the west of the carpark at Gemstone Beach.
Further west, a better selection of stones.
More larger stones appear as you get further west.
I collected 39 stones altogether. A number of them, like the first four below, are shades of green.
Interesting light-green “cloud” of mineral, probably epidote, in quartz.
A different hue of green, with opaque white.
Fingernail sized very small stone, great intense green!
Mudstone breccia.
Four more of today’s finds. I keep finding good specimens of trace fossil stones. I am always on the look out for a dark stone with dark traces and I found one today, the first of the four stones below. The second is a banded ignimbrite – I look for nice smooth specimens.
Dark coloured trace fossils.
Another quite small stone, a type of rhyolite, probably banded ignimbrite.
I am always attracted to stones with tiny white crystals.
Some interesting detail.
The next Part describes a fossicking trip to a Slope Point beach. The Series Index is here.
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