• This structure, washed ashore in the Netherlands and sizing app. 10 x 6 mm, is suggested to be the silica filling of boring holes of a sponge (Cliona?) and appeared after the surrounding calcareous shell material has eroded. The approximate diameter of the silica 'pipes' is 0,5 mm; the material very hard and 'glassy'; a kind of regular growing pattern is shown.
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