Boulder in the Prairie EarthCache

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Hidden : 1/13/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

This EarthCache is located on Warren County Conservation Board property. Parking is available at the Annett Nature Center, N 41 17.946 W 93 34.916. Please take time to visit the Nature Center while you are here. Hours are below.

This boulder is a glacial erratic, a rock not native to the area in which it has come to rest, hence the name “erratic”. These rocks were carried often hundreds of miles to their current locations by glacial ice.
This area of Iowa is known as the Southern Iowa Drift Plain and was most recently covered by ice over 500,000 years ago. Extremely cold climatic conditions led to erosional beveling in this area and removal of much of the finer-grained glacial materials, thus concentrating the larger pebbles and boulder at the land surface. In the recent past this area was used for farming. When the conservation board purchased the land, they brought it back to a more natural state of prairie.
This boulder and the boulder in the butterfly garden were unearthed when building 118th street and were moved to the Nature Center for landscaping and display.
Annett Nature Center Hours:
Monday- Friday 8am-4:30 pm
Sunday 12-4 pm (April-November)
www.mycountyparks.com/county/warren.aspx
To gain credit for this earthcache please perform the following tasks:
1) upload a picture of yourself and this boulder.
2) Email the cache owner the circumference of this boulder.

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