Springfield Bog EarthCache
Hidden : 8/27/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

The above coordinates will take you to the trail head of a 1.6 mile loop trail in one of the newest parks in the area. They are working bringing back the prairie grasslands that use to be here in the past. And, the area contains a bog.

Please stay on the trails and help preserve the replanted area.

For several years The Metro Parks has worked with the Trust for Public Land to acquire this former farm and to return it to it's native prairie. A 1.6 mile dirt hiking trail around the perimeter of the park takes past grass land and wood areas. There are a number of bogs in the park.

Over the next few years this prairie area will mature into what it was many years ago.

Visit the Springfield Bog web page HERE.

Your first impression of this bog will most likely be the same as mine. Where is it?

The first impression that you get is that looks just like a farmers field. Don`t be fooled! When you read the plaque you will understand what you are seeing. As an EARTH CACHE, the content of my write up must pertain to the geology of our subject – The Springfield Bog.

Did you ever wonder what was beneath the bog? I am going to start with the deepest part of the earth which is called the CORE. The earths CORE is approximately 1800 miles deep below the earths surface. Next is the MANTLE. The mantle begins about 6 miles below the OCEANIC CRUST and about 19 miles below the CONTINENTAL CRUST. Over all it is about 1750 miles thick. Did you know that the MANTLE makes up nearly 80% of the total volume of the earth? Next is the CRUST. The CRUST lays above the MANTLE and is the hard part of the earths shell. Just above the CRUST is the sand stone and limestone layers that were deposited by the ancient seas. This is the part of the earths crust that we live on in this area. So what does this have to do with the bog?

Even though the sand stone and lime stone that is beneath the bog is some what porous, the influx of ground water is greater than than the porosity of the strata below it. This is what keeps the area soggy. Next we say, what scooped out this area? Now we bring in the glacier of 10,000 years ago. The glacier scooped out a bowl like depression in the CRUST. As vegetation formed in this area, it fell into this wet depression until it formed a mat several feet thick thus creating the bog.

To claim a find on this Earth Cache you will need to email me the answer to the following question within 5 days of posting your log or your log, per Earthcache rules, must be deleted:

I want you to walk around the 1.6 mile loop and tell me approximately how deep this shallow depression is. If you do not walk around the loop you will have a difficult time trying to gauge the depth of the depression.

Congratulations to Dame Deco for the First To Find!


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