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English: Sunrise, Tessellated Pavement, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia.

Other languages:

Čeština: Západ slunce nad přírodním mozaikovitým útvarem na šíji Eaglehawk Neck, ležící na australském ostrově Tasmánii

Dansk: Solopgang over mosaikterrasserne ved Eaglehawk Neck i Tasmanien.

English: Sunrise, Tessellated Pavement, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia.

Español: Amanecer sobre el pavimento con forma de mosaico natural en Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Australia.

Français : Lever de soleil sur un pavement en mosaïque naturelle à Eaglehawk Neck, en Tasmanie (Australie).

Italiano: Levar del Sole su un terreno a mosaico naturale a Eaglehawk Neck, nella penisola di Tasman, Tasmania (Australia).

Magyar: Napfelkelte természetes négyszögletes képződmények fölött (Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmán félsziget, Tasmánia, Ausztrália)

Malti: Tlugħ ix-xemx fuq art taħt forma ta' mużajk naturali f'Eaglehawk Neck, fit-Tażmanja (Awstralja).

Nederlands: zonsopgang boven het tessellated pavement van de landengte Eaglehawk Neck van het Tasman-schiereiland aan zuidoostelijke zijde van het Australische eiland Tasmanië. Een tessellated pavement ("mozaïekterras") is een erosieverschijnsel in vlakgelegen sedimentair gesteente langs sommige oceanen, waarvan Eaglehawk Neck een bekend voorbeeld vormt.

Polski: Wschód słońca i mozajkowy chodnik w Eaglehawk Neck, Półwysep Tasmański, Tasmania, Australia.

Português: Amanhecer sobre o pavimento de mosaico natural em Eaglehawk Neck, península de Tasman, Austrália.

Български: Изгрев над "Мозаечната настилка" на брега на Игълхоук Нек на полусотров Тасман, остров Тасмания, Австралия.

Македонски: Изгрејсонце со природно „поплочен“ брег во Иглхок Нек на полуостровот Тасман во Тасманија, Австралија.

Русский: Закат над «мозаичной мостовой» на перешейке Eaglehawk Neck (Тасмания, Австралия)

中文：澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州塔斯曼半岛鹰颈棋盘形地面的日出景色。

中文（繁體）：澳大利亞塔斯曼尼亞州塔斯曼半島鷹頸棋盤形地面的日出景色。

فارسی : طلوع آفتاب، فرش موزاییک‌شکل، گردنهٔ ایگل‌هاوک، شبه‌جزیرهٔ تاسمان، تاسمانی، استرالیا.

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English: Sunrise, “Tessellated Pavement”, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia. The „Tesselated Pavement“ is the result of an orthogonal joint pattern in the rock. On the picture it shows the so called “pan formation”, where the rock in the immediate vicinity of the joints is more resistant to erosion than the rock that is more distant to the joints, This is due to alterations of the rock along the joints by hydrothermal (or similar) solutions when the rock was still buried deeply below the surface millions of years ago. When no alterations or alterations that lower the erosional resistivity have taken place in the geological past, the rock along the joints will erode faster than the rock that is more distant to the joints. In that case the so called “loaf formation” of “Tessellated Pavement” will form.

Français : Lever de soleil sur un pavement en mosaïque naturel à Eaglehawk Neck, en Tasmanie (Australie).

Deutsch: Sonnenaufgang bei Ebbe am Eaglehawk Neck, Tasman-Halbinsel, Tasmanien, Australien. Das Gestein zeigt eine natürliche Parkettierung (Tesselation), die auf ein rechtwinkliges Klüftungsmuster im Gestein zurückgeht. Auf dem Foto äußert sie sich in Gestalt sogenannter „Beckenstrukturen“, bei der das Gestein in der unmittelbaren Umgebung der Klüfte erosionsresistenter ist, als das Gestein in größerer Entfernung zu den Klüften. Dies ist wiederum das Ergebnis einer Gesteinsumwandlung entlang der Klüfte durch hydrothermale (oder ähnliche) Lösungen, zu einer Zeit als das Gestein sich noch tief unterhalb der Erdoberfläche befand, vor Millionen von Jahren. Falls keine Umwandlungen stattgefunden haben oder Umwandlungen, die zu einer Herabsetzung der Erosionsresistenz führten, erodiert das Gestein entlang der Klüfte schneller als das Gestein in größerer Entfernung zu den Klüften und es bilden sich „Brotlaibstrukturen“ (im Deutschen auch als Wollsackverwitterung bezeichnet).

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28 January 2009

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Camera location	43° 00′ 33.53″ S, 147° 55′ 55.74″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	-43.009315; 147.932150

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current	06:26, 2 December 2018	3,587 × 2,391 (5.9 MB)	JJ Harrison	More pixels!
	00:55, 24 May 2009	1,782 × 1,170 (1.32 MB)	JJ Harrison	untilt
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