Re:Huge mysterious stone spheres on Arctic island leave scie...
by nabla9 on Friday July 20, 2018 @05:21PM
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Most likely explanation is that these rocks have been rolling inside Giant's kettle. Giant's kettles are formed while a bedrock surface is covered by a glacier.
Re:Huge mysterious stone spheres on Arctic island leave scie...
by nabla9 on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:06PM
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Those kettles can be very large (10-13 m deep and wide) and the stones inside them can be massive. The rock is consumed and sometimes there is only small pebble left, sometimes very large stone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_kettle
Here is one from Finland: http://www.suomenluonto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Kivi-2...
About 20 years ago, the end of my road was at Bowling Ball Beach, plenty of concretion's to see there at low tide.
There are also a few different one's that are exfoliating from the cliff side that look like hamburgers, very cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Ball_Beach