One of my favorite complex mysteries in geology, moqui balls found in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. “They really represent a record of how water moved the rock millions of years ago, and the next generation can use them to understand water and life on other planets,” said Marjorie Chan, co-author of the new study and a geologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Read more about the unraveling of this mystery below.

Click the link below for a news article about this science.   http://www.livescience.com/47936-how-moqui-marbles-form.html

Click the link below for the scientific literature behind this science.  http://sp.sepmonline.org/content/sepsp102/1/SEC12.body.pdf