Did you know this from the shell?
'Shells' are composed of limestone external skeletons of mollusks like snails and mussels. After the death of the mollusk perish soft tissue very quickly. The hard shell may be held under favorable conditions continue and become coated with sand or clay. In such deposits, such a shell sometimes very long remain hidden, until he reappears millions of years later. The shells that wash ashore on Dutch beaches are very different from old age. Sometimes flushing even live animals, which clearly are 'recent'. However, the majority of the empty shells is taken from ground uprooted by the sea-sand and clay layers, which can be. Of various ages
The oldest layers that are affected by the sea in this way we find in Zeeland. On the beaches of Cadzand and Domburg coils numerous shells with an age sometimes many millions of years (Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene). Along the North Sea beaches are the shells usually much younger layers (Pleistocene and Holocene).
These shells were on the beach of Cadzan
" It makes me happy to create memories "
I love to photograph in the French or Dutch countryside. Forests, countryside or by the sea. But also cities, towns and villages (especially in France) are my favorites.
Best regards ! Yvonne..
Read more…