Faulted
110-million-year-old sedimentary rocks (Whatuwhiwhi Formation), cut by a small fault, exposed in the shore platform at Waiari, Karikari Peninsula. These rocks were deposited as a series of submarine landslides into a deep-ocean environment during the last days of the Gondwana Supercontinent. The prominent beds protruding from the platform are harder sandstone, separated by softer, more erodable mudstones.
Faulted
110-million-year-old sedimentary rocks (Whatuwhiwhi Formation), cut by a small fault, exposed in the shore platform at Waiari, Karikari Peninsula. These rocks were deposited as a series of submarine landslides into a deep-ocean environment during the last days of the Gondwana Supercontinent. The prominent beds protruding from the platform are harder sandstone, separated by softer, more erodable mudstones.