Around the posted coordinates, if you look on the ground, you will see potholes. Closer to the water You will be able to see some interesting designs on the rock. The following text will explain these potholes and designs.
This is not winter-friendly.
Bell Park Geology
Potholes...
Potholes? You mean those things your car runs over?
Not exactly.
A pothole is a deep round hole worn in rock by loose stones whirling in strong rapids or waterfalls. The interiors of potholes tend to be smooth. Some potholes are larger than others, such as the potholes seen here or here, but some, like the ones here, aren't quite as big. Here's a picture of some potholes near the posted coordinates, (thanks to waxwing454 for taking the picture).
Potholes are formed in the river by a process known as corrosion. Rocks are carried out to the river and they grind against the bank causing a widening and deepening of the river beds and thus creating potholes. These potholes were fromed just like every other pothole.
Closer to the water... Formations in the rock...
Here's a cool kind of snake-like design in the rock...
As the marble was stretched here, it was stretched in a direction that parallels the Ottawa River shoreline. Brittle and rectangular pieces were drawn from the parent body (the larger body) and were left as isolated chains of folded blocks in the marble. Some of the details in the marble show that most of the deformation was sinstral to produce the observedoff-set and rotated diabase blocks.
Precambrian forces are what shaped this marble.
"Conclusion" and definitions...
The shoreline ar Bell Park is underlined with multi-million (Even billion) year old metamorphosed folded, marble laced with silicate crystals, with intrusions. Intrusion and inclusion has left folded dykes and deformed diabase masses. All this would be missed by a passer by, but when you look close at Bell Park, it's full of great geology.
Definitions:
Diabase - diabase is a fine grained, intrusive igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron and poor in quartz and feldspar.
Intrusion - the movement of magma from within the earth's crust into spaces in the overlying strata to form igneous rock
Dykes - A dike (*or dyke*) is a sheet of rock that formed in a crack in a pre-existing rock body
Veins - a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
Sinstral - Sinistral and dextral are scientific terms that describe handedness or relative direction. (*Sinstral is left lateral*).
Metamorpic/Metamorphosed - Metamorphism is the change of geologic texture in pre-existing rocks, without it melting into magma.
Logging requirements...
1. What is the depth of the deepest pothole in the group nearest to the GZ?
2. What is the length of the snake-like design in the marble? Don't measure the curves, just from one end to the other.
3. What is the average width of the snake-like design?
Email the answers to me please.
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If ALL of your answers are wrong, then you can either go back to the site and correct them, or post at least one picture of you and/or your GPSr at the cache site.
Good luck, have fun, and happy caching guys!
Greg