Geschichte: The strangest sounds woke me up: at first, I thought it was a dog howling, but it turned out to be whales just offshore. Thick fog made it impossible to spot them and with the rising sun, their singing faded. Hoping the fog would clear soon, we went for a morning walk along Brier Island's largest beach. But the fog was as resistant to the sun's warming rays, as this quartz is to weathering.
Geologie: The main white component of this pebble is quartz. The smaller black part probably consists of basalt, the 'bedrock' of the Digby Neck Islands, to which Brier Island belongs. The quartz most likely formed as part of a vein that runs through the basalt. This piece at the boundary between the vein and the basalt broke off and was washed into the sea. The water then ground the rock over time to its current round form.
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