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Photo Caption                                547_35  

Expedition team examines a large boulder with mud 
coating (known asan accretionary bomb).  This coating 
may have formed as the ejecta boulder passed through 
the dense, turbulent cloud of debris collecting small 
particles on its surface.  Albion Island quarry, northern 
Belize.  January 1998.