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Papa Rock
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A unique piece of rock I stumbled across at Castle Point today.
"Papa"
The terms papa or papa-rock are used for the widespread soft, blue-grey mudstone or muddy sandstone.
Although the word papa is of Māori derivation (meaning earth), by the mid-19th century it was being used by Pākehā writers referring to mudstone, and in 1905 it was nicely summed up: ‘The Papa Rock, of which many of the cliffs in the bush country of New Zealand are formed, is really a very hard, blue clay … It lies in distinct strata, and when the wet penetrates to one beneath, the surface of this latter becomes as slippery as glass |
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hi Steven
Unique rock and unique designs.
colours are fine
good pov
good lighting
merry x-mas
regards
manuj mehta
- jackal
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Hi Steven,
It certainly is unusual, good detail and colour
all the best
Jack
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