Sandstone slab with refilled sun cracks
Once mud dries under the sun it shrinks and develops a network of cracks and fissures. The next layer of sediment that gets laid down on top will fill in the cracks. This specimen shows some of these refilled sun cracks.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 19/1916
- Category
- Array
- Collection Class
- Rocks
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Common Name
- sandstone slab with refilled sun cracks
- Simple Name
- rock: sandstone
