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Calling All Geologists Traditional Cache

Hidden : 1/24/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

What do you think of when you see a pile of rocks? I'm no geologist, so I often wonder, "How did they get here?" Post your opinion in the online log if you have a theory of how this pile of rocks got here.

The (free) Museum of Geology at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden has some very interesting rock samples that came from North Table Mesa. When I saw this pile of rocks, I wondered where all the pretty ones at the museum came from--they looked nothing like these gray, weathered, lichen-covered rocks. Maybe next time I'll bring a hammer...

You're looking for a 6" camouflaged pill bottle. Don't put your hands into holes without looking carefully first--this is rattlesnake country.

Local History Trivia: A week after I placed this cache, I met Harald Drewes, a retired geologist who wrote a booklet about North and South Table Mesas. He told me that these two mesas were built up by four separate lava flows--very long ago, when north and south table mesas were not separated by the eroded valley in which Coors Brewery sits today. Harald explained that the pretty minerals I saw in the geology museum at the School of Mines were formed when lava pushed up through wet rock, which caused the land to bulge, and minerals to separate.

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