A Look at Buenie's Loaf EarthCache
Hidden : 12/17/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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Geocache Description:

This EarthCache will bring you to North Buena Vista Iowa.

North Buena Vista is located in Iowa's driftless area. The Driftless Area or Paleozoic Plateau is a region in the American Midwest noted mainly for its deeply carved river valleys. While primarily in southwest Wisconsin, it also includes areas of southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and northwest Illinois.

This region's peculiar terrain is due to its having escaped glaciation in the last glacial period. The term "driftless" indicates a lack of glacial drift, the material left behind by retreating continental glaciers.

Overall, the region is characterized by an eroded-down plateau with bedrock overlain by varying thicknesses of loess, or fine-grained, silty, pale yellow or buff, windblown (aeolian) sediment. Most characteristically, the river valleys are deeply-dissected. The bluffs lining this reach of the Mississippi River currently climb to about 600 feet.

In Iowa, Pre-Illinoian age till (unsorted glacial sediment deposited more than 300,000 years ago) was probably removed by natural means prior to the deposition of loess. The sedimentary rocks of the valley walls date to the paleozoic (a period 542 to 251 million years ago) and are often covered with colluvium or loess. Bedrock, where not directly exposed, is very near the surface and is composed of primarily Ordovician dolomite, limestone, and sandstone in Minnesota, with Cambrian sandstone, shale, and dolomite exposed along the valley walls of the Mississippi River.

This EarthCache will introduce you to a very odd rock formation known to the locals as Sugar Loaf.

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Please note, this rock formation is on private property. Please do not venture on to private property at any time without the property owner's permission. The information needed to receive credit for this EarthCache can obtained from the road.

To receive credit for this EarthCache.

In an e-mail to me, please tell me the following:

1. At the posted coordinates, what is the elevation?

2. Estimate the height of the "Loaf".

3. What geological process do you think formed the "Loaf"?

and

Photos are fun and further proof that you have actually been to this spring site.If you would like, please upload a photo of you and/or your group with a GPS at the above coordinates with the loaf in the background.





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