Beneath the Enderby Cliffs EarthCache
Beneath the Enderby Cliffs
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From Enderby drive N on Enderby Grindrod Road to Inch Logan Road and follow your GPS to coordinates. Park and view. You are very close and looking up to the main body of the Enderby Cliffs.
The Enderby Cliffs were not initially cliffs, but a field of lava. Volcanic activity some 50 million years ago caused a large lava flow to cover much of the area from Kamloops to north of Enderby. Different from explosive Euocene volcanism where distinct edifices developed, the Chilcotin basalts passively emanated from long cracks or fissures that opened up in the crust. These highly fluid basaltic lavas spread out over the Interior Plateau and flowed down any river valleys or depressions existing at the time. In some cases, as with these cliffs the blanket of lava was 1000 metres thick. The most recent glaciers some 25,000 years ago represents the last major impact on the cliffs. The glaciers began their ascent into the Okanagan Valley from east of Mabel Lake coming down the Shuswap and Coldstream Valleys to meet another glacier moving south from north of Shuswap Lake. The great Okanagan Glacier receded over time, causing the gouging of the cliffs. These cliffs are now part of a Provincial Park Protected Area.
In order to log a find, you will need to enter the date of your visit in the log below. You then must email me answers to the following two questions: 1)When viewing the cliffs from here; what farm implement is now part of yard landscaping (looking back over your left shoulder)? 2)Could one expect to find thunder eggs (geodes) at the base of the cliffs and what is your reasoning for either yes or no? Without me receiving these two answers, your log entry will be deleted.
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