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Point Reyes National Seashore

Tafoni weathering pattern of the sandstone beds in the Point Reyes Conglomerate along the path to the lighthouse. It is formed by the dissolving of mineral cements through successive wetting and drying. Humans studying the interbedded conglomerate for scale.

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