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  1. A pretty pebble from a Cliff-side stormbeach.
    Formed by volcanic activity in present day County Galway millions of years ago, dragged South by glaciers during the last iceage thousands of years ago and more recently shaped and polished by Atlantic waves.
    County Clare, Ireland.

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  2. An Braunann Mór - the big seastack at the Cliffs of Moher. It's stone ledges are home to more than 6,000 nesting seabirds, including Common Guillemots, Kittiwakes, Razorbills and Shags.
    County Clare, Ireland.

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  3. The fossilized flotation chambers of a Goniatite shell revealed in section - From 300 million years old marine sedimentary layers at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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  4. This week's pocket pebble is a pleasingly smooth and circular Septarian Nodule. Septarian Nodules are fossilized mud bubbles - this one has been eroded out of the shale layers that make up the Cliffs of Moher. County Clare, Ireland.

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  5. Also at a loss as to what kind of rock I'm looking at here - very pretty but completely out of place on a limestone shore. All ideas welcome.
    @drsadhbh @kerry_geo @burrengeopark

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