GC1B8WX Cascades Earthcache (Earthcache) in Michigan, United States created by beenhere

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Hidden : 4/15/2008

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This is the Cascades Park. The cords above are where you will park and take your first reading.

A kame is a geological feature, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier. Kames are often associated with kettles, and this is referred to as kame and kettle topography.With the melting of the glacier, streams carry sediment to glacial lakes, building kame deltas on top of the ice. However, with the continuous melting of the glacier, the kame delta eventually collapses on to the land surface, furthering the "kame and kettle" topography.The Cascades Falls were built in the early spring of the 1930s. Its first display to the public was on May 10, 1932. In the years that followed, word of the Cascades spectacle spread throughout the country and around the world. Visitors from all points of the globe came to Jackson to view the falls. The Cascades Falls are 500 feet in length, a vertical height of 64 feet, and a total width of 60 feet. There are 6 fountains, 16 Falls (11 are illuminated), 1,230 Colored Electric Lights, and a 2,000 gallon per minute water pump that filters, chlorinates, and recycles water in a closed loop system. There are 126 steps along each side of the Falls. This walkways passes 3 main pools of water that are 30 feet by 90 feet.To get credit first take an altitude reading in the parking area. Then climb the kame and take another reading at the highest spot you can reach. Email me the two readings and the total height of the kame.

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