Thanks Julian and everyone involved in making this video happen. The more I learn about the geological process of the earth, the more fascinating and addictive this study becomes.

I’ve binged about ten of these in the last few days. Brilliant videos explaining extremely complex processes with ease and great visuals. If I was a high school teacher I’d be using your videos in geography or science class for sure!

I will never stop being fascinated by Geology. I'm so glad you started this channel mate! I've watched this several times now haha.

I visited there 55 yrs ago as a 10yr old and remember being told that it was the fruit out of a washed up Maori canoe obviously no bananas on it thanks for crushing the legend i have rememberd all these years lol cheers from Aus

Fascinating. Still in the cliff are some small boulders which have not yet hardened, they can be scraped with a fingernail...why are these ones so different?

Great video, thanks heaps for sharing.

Loved it! I learnt so much about the concretions!

I love this place, and always stop if I'm passing through. I've even climbed into the centres of some of them. My fave boulder is the one you show at 3:05. A few questions: 1) How far back does that mudstone layer extend? Is there any way of knowing? 2) does this occur elsewhere on Earth? As in: are there other places where similar concretions have emerged to surface? 3) Can you offer a speculative answer to the following: how many of these layers might exist right now, still buried? The formative processes would surely have occurred over millions of square kms in those prehistoric oceans.

We have”caliche” here…ours form into layers with fossil shells layered throughout. But that crystalline layer reminded me of geode like rocks we find

Cool thanks Julian, awesome and very interesting👍

I just want to head to NZ now. Great content.

Very interesting, thank you :)

Fascinating..

Fascinating 🖖🏼

Are they not listed to stop people standing on them?

Nice to know the whys and wherefores of these famous boulders. Thanks for explaining their true nature. Are they somewhere between a Limestone and a Marble rock ??

Wow, talking about Moeraki boulders my mum is taking me to those

Wow! Thank you. Interesting! Question: Is the same phenomenon found inland anywhere else, or is it just found by the present shoreline?

3:20 Hope it wasn’t vandalism that caused your favourite boulder to disintegrate!?! Seems very sudden, for something so very ancient.

Pearls!!!

OK... thats why they formed....why only here? Any others on the planet? Are there more to be "unearthed"? Might the breaking ones be "renovated" or should we be satisfied with some sort of photographic record ( like what we have left of the Pink and White terraces?)

My question is that the boulder you mentioned breaking here, was caused by the hitting of another rolling down Boulder? and I also believe that these boulders were created by actions, watch the surrounding soils suggested that before the soils formed the boulders already existed, nothing shows that these boulders had been growing to present ones.considering of similar layer they emerged and such narrow and long belt of these deposited area, I believe they are made by some actions,

Plenty of these boulders on the South Hawkes bay coast, near Porangahau. The surrounding geology appears similar to Moeraki. Got a photo of my wife sitting on one. "Pania of the reef" Thanks for the info, I didn't know the process of how they were formed

They dig the same thing out the open cut coal mine at Moura Queensland

So you're saying they're basically ancient huge pearls.

Big time balls :O

Fossalized Dinosor poop!😂😅

So wouldn't there possibly be unknown types of fossils within them? Should they be inspected before they break apart and are lost forever? No paleontologist here you can tell.

All this from the great flood! God created all!

Yes but... iron cores, always. Even in mochi balls in New Mexico, and even in Martian blueberry concretions on Mars.

nga kakano i ruia mai i rangiatea, Moeraki Boulders are giant seeds left by the stone trees that covered aotearoa and Lemuria that were cut down by our ancestors. They are not cracked they have germinated and are growing

They look like giant seeds that turned to stone

Been watching your videos over the last few months now, I'm going to tell you some hard truth about that area, and specifically those rocks which are actually 100% biology so please don't be offended Local iwi and surrounding iwi spoke about body's turnt to stone, if you know earth's real history then you will know large large creatures roamed this earth, an I'm talking some 1000ft+ tall. In Moeraki folklore the entire area was a large giant who now lay to rest, the boulders on the beach are what you would call Tendon Balls, which are anchors that hold and allow our Ligaments, Tendons etc to move back n fourth wile attached to the bone. You also notice there are Tendon Balls in the cliff, now let me tell you about the cliff which is layers of skin, take a close look at the distinctive lines and layers in cliffs which is not a natural phenomenon it is actually layers of skin and membrane and interstiching. The Tendon Balls are anchored in the skin which is the cliff. The local iwi hide these Truths from the public as well and for good reason. Let me tell you about why Māori people are so connected to there Maunga ( Mountains )?? Majority of the Maunga ( Mountain ) ranges are body's of large giants, usually the nose of the giant creature is the highest point, it's all biological my friend There's truth to there being a flood or mud flood in the ancient past, Māori hide alot from the common folk, so do all other indigenous cultures around the world and for good reason they are protectors of the land and the real history Some of the old Cheifs in certain parts of NZ were 7 - 12ft tall people. That's another story for another time when it comes to giants. Have a good day / night people

No wonder NZ are good at cricket.

Man made? NO! They are Dinosaur eggs, aren't they?

this caveman is acting like he has knowledge of millions of years 😂. these are dragon eggs.