Nose Hill Glacial Erratic EarthCache
Nose Hill Glacial Erratic
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The Nose Hill Glacial Erratic is located a short distance off a secondary trail in Nose Hill Park. The trail leading to the earthcache is a slow but steady climb. Caution should be taken after any form of precipitation.
Until recent geological time Nose Hill was not a hill, but the remnant of a many-million-year-old high plain that was carved by rivers flowing from the west. These rivers cut down, from original elevations at the tops of the hills, to below the bottom of the current valleys. The valleys were then partially refilled by glacial and post-glacial river deposits. During the last twenty thousand years, Nose Hill was further shaped by late glacial and post-glacial activity.
The glaciers carried debris great distances and deposited it along their path. Geologists call these pieces of debris glacial till and glacial erratics. This earthcache is a large erratic left on Nose Hill and known to generations of Calgarians as the Rubbing Stone, that was brought to this location by the last glacier between eighteen to fifteen thousand years ago from the Mount Edith Cavell area in Jasper National Park.
To log this earthcache please complete the following:
1. E-mail (do not post) the cache owner the approximate dimensions of the Nose Hill glacial erratic - height, length and width.
2. E-mail the cache owner (do not post) the official name of the coulee trail leading to this earthcache site that is very important to Native spirituality.
3. E-mail the cache owner (do not post) the approximate height and type of artifact found 20 metres ENE of the earthcache site.
4. Post a photo of yourself with GPS in hand at the earthcache site.
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