Clear Point wave ripples

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These wave ripples occur near the base of the Snapper Point Formation at Clear Point (just north of Pebbly Beach) on the south coast of New South Wales. They are a record of storm events on a shallow marine shelf in the southern Sydney Basin during the early Permian. They occur a little over metre above a layer bearing hundreds of Eurydesma hobartense fossils. This layer also has wave ripples and dropstones, which are a record of glaciation at he time.

Water bottle (600 ml) for scale on the left.