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Fossil of Water Ripples

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This slab shows the distinctive water ripple marks, interference waves that form as shallow water is moved in multiple directions by wind. Note also a patch of a subsequent layer of mud that lithified (transformed into stone) over the original marks.

Date:
None
Accession #:
38/19
Courtesy of:
Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College, photograph by Ed Gregory