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Description: Synaeresis Cracks The rock here looks like crazy paving with cement between the slabs. In fact the shapes were formed when the Triassic lacustrine mudstones began to lithify and contract, and fluids infilled the resulting gaps.
Title: Synaeresis Cracks - geograph.org.uk - 474655
Credit: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Anne Burgess
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