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A gorgeous granitic pebble with some colourful crystals.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Circles within circles - a mix of dark shales and slightly oxidised iron pyrite in this storm beach stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A small concretion that has eroded out of the sedimentary rock layers here on the shore. It possibly has a fossil inside, but I like it too much to break it open 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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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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A pretty wee pebble - with a lovely mix of patterns and colours.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A pretty patterned pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A new pocket pebble to start the new year.
A sea polished concretion reflecting a sky full of fluffy clouds.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Green veined shore stone - Natures Kintsugi.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A pretty green pocket pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A mixture of colored crystals showing on the surface of this pretty pocket pebble. County Clare, Ireland.

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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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A pretty green pocket pebble, County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized flotation chambers. From the shells of ancient Goniatites that swam in the seas that covered this area over 300 million years ago. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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Today's pocket pebble is a spherical concretion from the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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Natures hieroglyphs etched in this pretty pocket pebble - 300 million year old Goniatite fossils. County Clare, Ireland.

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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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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.
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