Stony Creek Kames EarthCache
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Stony Creek Metropark has many glacial features through out the
park. We will be looking at a kame, one of many here in the park.
The reason we are bring you to this one is so that you can get a
clear understanding of the make up of these kames.
We start to look at these kames by first understanding the history
of this land. Somewhere about one billion years ago the Great Lake
region got it beginnings. As volcanoes erupted and sea that covered
this area converged these lands started to form what we know today.
Bedrock was formed and this hot land began to cool and then freeze
over. It was the ice of glaciers growing and then retreating that
these kames came to be. When we talk about glaciers we are look at
a melting period 10,000 to 12,000 year ago in this area. Glaciers
carry within them cobble, gravel, sand, and silt, some of which we
call boulders. As the ice sheets melted away deposits would be left
behind in many forms that we see in this park today.
Kames are formed a couple of ways one of which occurred between the
lobes of the glaciers. This type of kame is formed as ice well
waters swirled their load of rock waste into it, building up a
conical deposit of sand and gravel. Where meltwaters, flowing over
the surface of the glacier, plunged into a crevasse or crack in the
glacier or fell over the ice front in a waterfall onto the
accumulating moraine, conical deposits of debris were left resting
on the edge of the ice. The others kames came to be as these were
here at the park. It will be your job to discover how these kames
were formed as the ice retreated. You can see several kames on you
walk though most will not be as easy to recognize because of soil
that has built up and growth on that.
The posted co-ords will take you to the bottom of one of the kames.
At the co-ords you will find a sign that will help you better
understand how they came to be. You will be e-mailing me with your
discoveries, please do not post them in your log.
Here is the work that you will need to complete to get credit for
this Earthcache, e-mail me with your answers.
1. At the post co-ords you will find a sign. Here you will first
read of a Wooded Kettle, explain how it was formed.
2. This hill, which is the kame you are standing on. How was this
kame formed?
3. This area and the kame here are a part of what larger glacial
feature here, please use the name on the sign.
4. Optional; Post a picture of you and/or your team at the low
point of the kame so that the kame is your background.
This Earthcache has been placed with permission of the
Huron-Clinton Metroparks.
This cache is located within Stony Creek Metropark, a part of
the
Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority park system. A Metropark
Vehicle Entry Permit is required:
Annual Permit $25, Senior Permit $15, Daily Permit $5. For general
information please call
1-800-47-PARKS, or visit our website at www.metroparks.com All park
rules and regulations apply.
Park in parking lots only. Check the Metroparks website for park
hours.
Be sure to e-mail me within 7 days of logging the cache to
get credit for your work. If the rules of finding an Earthcache and
e-mailing the owner is not followed your log will be deleted
without notice!
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