Beartown Rocks EarthCache
Hidden : 10/24/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Beartown Rocks is a "rock city" located within Clear Creek State Forest. The terrain is rocky, but trails are plentiful, with no sudden changes in elevation.

The Beartown Rocks feature is known as a rock city. A rock city feature is formed when the hard layer of caprock is breached by erosion and the softer, less erosion resistant layers of stone underneath are eroded away. The eroding stream widens as it deepens, leaving pieces of the bedrock standing as boulders. That is what you see here.People have been coming to the Beartown Rocks area for some time. The earliest legible date carved into the rocks is 1902. As I mentioned earlier, this cache is located on the Appalachian Plateau. To log this cache, 1. estimate the average height of the rocks here 2. send me the elevation at the scenic overlook at the cache coordinates 3. post a picture of yourself at any of therocks. The height of the boulders will show you the thickness of the bedrock they came from, and the elevation will give you some idea of the depth of the valley below you, as well as illustrate the awesome power that water has as it erodes through places like this. Most people that come here think they are seeing boulders on a hill, but it’s actually the other way around. The boulders are actually bedrock at the old Appalachian Plateau ground level, and the valleys are the products of (relatively) recent erosion.
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