sandstone lace
May. 11th, 2008 23:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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walklog:
05-11 jack point 5.63 km 2:53 altitude gain 403m. the tide was way, way out, so we wandered around on the ocean floor for a while, peeking into every pool and under some rocks. there was a whole bunch of little crabs and hermit crabs trapped in an old tire, just falling over each other. one little red crab (about 2 cm large) ran out from under a rock and challenged me. i threw the fight.
saw common mergansers and several great blue herons fishing. the camas are in full bloom now. saw my first ever death camas (zigadenus venenosus), and checker/chocolate/rice root lilies / mission bells (fritillaria affinis)!
ETA: what i call "sandstone lace" is generally called tafoni, though i've also seen terms like alveoles, fretwork, gnammas, honeycomb. tafoni.com has some interesting information, including pictures of such structures from around the world.
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on 2008-05-12 08:00 (UTC)no subject
on 2008-05-12 12:23 (UTC)(Most of the dailies I just smile and move on without commenting; I do enjoy them. But this one called out to be commented on.)
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on 2008-05-13 05:07 (UTC)It makes me think of suncupping (http://www.sfu.ca/~pbastani/result.html) in snow, the way the mechanisms of formation are related in a way, but different, and the forms are different. Do you know if it has a name, this surf-stone lace?
sandstone lace
on 2008-05-13 08:04 (UTC)Re: sandstone lace
on 2008-05-15 08:00 (UTC)Deeply squeeworthy.