Redeposited limestone clasts, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

This photo shows a Quaternary limestone on San Salvador Island in
The Bahamas that is being eroded by crashing waves. The resulting
limestone clasts are quickly rounded and redeposited in a modern layer
of lithoclastic limestone. Rounded limestone clasts in the conglomerate
and limestone unit at I-170 may have formed by a similar process.

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