To claim this Earthcache please email me the Answers to the following Questions:
1. What type of rock is the waterfalls flowing over?
2. What is the height of the waterfall?
3. Describe the lower part of the falls, and was it always this way. Or did it look different many years ago?
Not required, but always nice (Take a picture of yourself in front of the falls)
Moore Lake flows into Moore Creek, over the falls and into the Madawaska River. This landscape is “Shield Country”, formed 2.5 billion years ago, it is the world’s oldest exposed bedrock. Through the millennia, “land building” activity has left large and irregular lakes with rocky cliffs, pocket beaches and deep waters; with moraines, eskers, inland dunes and kames. Having created thousands of kilometres of rivers over time, the Canadian Shield covers almost one-third of the country and is a dominant segment of Canada’s ecological identity. There is barren rock in many places because of glaciers that removed the soil during the Ice Age. There is a chaotic pattern of lakes, rivers, and swamps because of debris left behind from the melting of the glaciers.
The multitude of rivers and lakes in the entire region is caused by the watersheds of the area being so young and in a state of sorting themselves out with the added effect of post-glacial rebound. The Shield was originally an area of very large mountains (about 12,000 metres or 39,000 feet) with much volcanic activity, but over hundreds of million of years, the area has been eroded to its current topographic appearance of relatively low relief. It has some of the oldest (extinct) volcanoes on the planet. It has over 150 volcanic belts (now deformed and eroded down to nearly flat plains) whose bedrock ranges from 600 to 1200 million years old.
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