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DEFORMED BELEMNITES

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Part of a stretched belemnite boudins with quartz and calcite infill. The space between the broken pieces of the belemnite are filled with pricipated material. The more translucent material in the middle of the gaps is quartz, the material closer to the pieces is calcite. Photo from the root zone of the Morcles nappe in the Rhone valley, Switzerland by Martin Casey