Kincora Erratic - CCARW09 EarthCache
Kincora Erratic - CCARW09
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This earthcache is located in a quiet City of Calgary park. It is intended to be part of the Calgary Cache and Release Winter 2009 event. If it is released before then it should not be sought until March 12th. Any logs made before that will be deleted.
These large rocks here are part of a glacial feature known as "erratics". If you've done earthcaches near Calgary before, you're likely familiar with them; they are rocks that are not from the immediate area, but were transported here during the last Ice Age and dropped when the glacier carrying them melted.
As the Athabasca Glacier came from the north and flowed towards the south, parts of mountains in the north crumbled - somewhere around Jasper - and the rocks landed atop the glacier. As the glacier moved it carried the rocks southward until the glacier melted enough to release the rock from atop itself.
The erratics in and around Calgary are part of the "Foothills Erratic Train", one of the longest groups of glacial erratics in the world, and containing the largest erratic in the world: the Okotoks Erratic. (Which is itself and earthcache.)
TO LOG THIS CACHE: you must email to the owner the estimated size (length, width and height) of BOTH rocks. Also, estimate the weight of the rocks, and what might be needed to move them in today's world. Also, indicate whether you think that the erratics here were one rock or two that came into the area. A photo of yourself at the earthcache must also be posted with your log.
Nothing special about these erratics versus others in the area, except it looks like it is broken. It could've been one rock, but time has smoothed them both out.
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