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Warren Falls EarthCache

Hidden : 7/28/2024
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


Nestled not so deep in the woods, along 100, lays Warren falls. A great swimming hole in the summer, and a fabulous place for leaf peeping in fall. These series of casscading, surprisingly deep pools, were carved from ice sheet retreat from the last ice age. As seen the map above, Ice sheets covered New England and went down to the Long Island Sound. The ice sheets were so large that if you were to stand on Mount Mansfield, you would still be under 1000 feet of ice. This ice weighed so much that for each sqaure foot it would be under 250,000 pounds! As this ice retreated, some spots it wighed more, plowing through ground and bedrock causing little canyons in some spots. When the ice sheets did not destroy rocks, they left marks on the rocks know as glacier striation. Compared to river erosion, where the water is less powerful and rarely causes little cayonsin smaller rivers like Mad river, ice sheet retreat is powerful. But, over the course of thousands of years,  water flowed down mountains and filled and smoothed these canyons. Warren falls is an example of this. 

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In order to log this cache, you must answer these questions :

1. Post a picture of you at the sign at the cache location OR at the falls.

2. According to the pictures above, are there any signs of glacier striation at Warrens falls?

3. List three features you see that could have been caused by ice sheet retreat and why it is unlikely that it was formed by river erosion.

 

Congrats to 82HammFam for FTF

 

 

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