Field guide No. 1384
The dry circle
Somebody kept a patch
A clifftop sea pool full of green water has a round dry patch in the middle, its crimped edge holding the water back like a pie crust. The pool is full except where it isn’t.
Field noteSeawater fills the cliff pool but stops dead at a round, crimped rim, leaving its middle bone dry.
- Specimen
- No. 1384
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a clifftop sea pool with a dry island in its middle
- Nearest existing relative
- a pie dish
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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