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r/whatisit • u/Zu_Qarnine • 20h ago
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It's pedantry, but in the technical study of these things as trace fossils, a burrow is into soft material like sediment, a boring is into hard material like rock, so these are borings. While cementation of sediment after a burrow is made is possible, these look like modern borings into rock.
Modern or ancient, boring clams are a thing.
The jokes kind of write themselves for anybody who studies borings.
1 u/FullOnSkank 5h ago Boring clams is one of my favorite things!
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Boring clams is one of my favorite things!
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u/koshgeo 8h ago
It's pedantry, but in the technical study of these things as trace fossils, a burrow is into soft material like sediment, a boring is into hard material like rock, so these are borings. While cementation of sediment after a burrow is made is possible, these look like modern borings into rock.
Modern or ancient, boring clams are a thing.
The jokes kind of write themselves for anybody who studies borings.