Sandy Cove Beach - Kame EarthCache

Sandy Cove Beach - Kame

Sandy Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County on Digby Neck. The community is the birth place of Laurence Bradford Dakin. His best known work was Marco Polo: A Drama in Four Acts (1946), which reportedly sold over 30, 000 copies in the United States and was hailed by John Masefield as the "work of a genius."

Kame, mound-like hill of poorly sorted drift, mostly sand and gravel, deposited at or near the terminus of a glacier. A kame may be produced either as a delta of a meltwater stream or as an accumulation of debris let down onto the ground surface by the melting glacier.

A kame is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier. Kames are often associated with kettles, and this is referred to as kame and kettle topography. The word kame is a variant of comb (kame, or kaim is the Old Scottish word for comb), which has the meaning "crest" among others.

During the Quaternary Period, which covers the last 1.6 million years of earth history. The climate cooled and large glaciers periodically covered the earth’s surface. Nova Scotia was affected by at least four ice advances from 75,000 to 10,000 years ago (called the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage).

The Sangamonian Interglacial which was from 120,000 to 75,000 years ago was a time when the climate was as warm or warmer than today. Forests grew in Nova Scotia at this time and their remains can be found buried under glacial deposits.

Stay a while and enjoy the beach area.

Note there is a view area at top of kame, see waypoint view.

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Questions:

1.  What is the elevation to the top of the Kame (Sandy’s Cove)? 

2. What is the length and shape of the beach?

3. What is the cliff behind the beach made of? 

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