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rock pool
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rock pool [′räk ‚pül]
(geology)
A tidal pool formed along a rocky shoreline.


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Really, anywhere where rocks meet the water, you're going to find tide pool life," says Nemesia Herzstein, aquarium education specialist at Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.
That result makes it plausible that a shallow primeval tide pool tucked into the side of a volcano and a fortuitous bolt of lightning could have led to an abundance of amino acids, Bada says.
Children were dressed up as the primary characters in the tide pool - a periwinkle snail, hermit crab, green sea urchin, rock crab, sea star and blue mussel, which gets eaten by the sea star in the end.
 
 
 
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