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After leaving Lake Tekapo in rain just a few miles down the road the sun was shinning so we went and visited the Clay Cliffs – Paritea a natural rock formation 10 km west of Omarama. It was so hot I got sunburnt! March 5, 2014, South Island, New Zealand.

The Clay Cliffs are huge sharp pinnacles and ridges with deep, narrow ravines separating them. The Clay Cliffs are made of layers of gravel and silt, deposited by rivers flowing from glaciers existing 1-2 million years ago. Compared to the nearby mountains, which are 250 million years old, the Clay Cliffs are relatively new. Today the gravel and silt layers can be seen as sloping bands as the strata have been tilted since their deposition 1-2 million years ago.
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Author Jocelyn Kinghorn from Christchurch, New Zealand
Camera location44° 27′ 41.66″ S, 169° 53′ 39.21″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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