Peggy's Erratics EarthCache

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Hidden : 11/27/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

The Peggy's Cove Preservation Area consists of about 2000 acres stretching from Indian Harbour to West Dover and includes barrens, bogs, inland ponds, and rocky coastline.

The dramatic landscape of Peggy’s Cove dotted with granite boulders large and small has made this area a favorite destination for tourists and locals alike.
More than 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, the plate tectonics movement of the earth's crust allowed molten material to bubble up from the earth's interior. This formed the rocks we see today and are part of the Great Nova Scotia batholith. The unique landscape of Peggy’s Cove and surrounding areas was subsequently carved by the migration of glaciers and the ocean tides. About 20,000 years ago, an ice ridge moved south from Canada’s Arctic region covering much of North America. Along with the ebb and flow of the glaciers, the ice ridge eventually melted, shifted and in the process scooped away and scoured large sections of rock, vegetation, and topsoil. The changing tidal flows and the rising sea levels, as melted land glaciers flowed back to the oceans, filled the scarred areas with water, forming coves and inlets. Large boulders, called glacial erratics, actually 415-million-year-old Devonian granite, lifted by the ice, were carried many miles and deposited upon the landscape as the ice receded, leaving rugged barrens. The movement of the glacial ice and rocks left scouring marks, or deep scratches, in the bedrock that can still be seen today.

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