A light-colored rock along the forest path with its fossil shells told of a time when the world was different place. Remnants of a beach where marine life thrived in warm, shallow waters lay beneath the roots of trees and vegetation on what is now dry land. It is a curious feeling to look throughContinue reading “Stone Window”
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An Iron Shore
The rugged, fossil-laden Ironshore Formation in the foreground is the remnant of an ancient reef and the remains of creatures that once thrived there. It was laid down eons ago when sea levels were higher and is now slowly eroding away from the effects of waves and microorganisms. In the distance, waves break on theContinue reading “An Iron Shore”
Holey Ground
Sinkholes forced us to watch our step to avoid falling into the underworld while walking about this private arboretum in Grand Cayman. Water acidified by dissolved carbon dioxide has slowly eaten away at the fossil-laden limestone from eons past to leave a system of caves connected to the surface by sinkholes. Sounds of the oceanContinue reading “Holey Ground”
Platte
The Platte is a curious river washing over the gravelly remnants of the ancestral Rocky Mountains. Native Americans once camped and hunted along its waters, and later, European emigrants to Oregon, California, and Utah passed along the banks of this “Great Platte River Road.” The river was often described as “too thick to drink andContinue reading “Platte”
Age Rocks
“The Data Is In The Strata,” read one geology-themed T-shirt in a gift shop in Ketchikan that we visited a couple of weeks ago. I was delighted until I found out that that they had run out my shirt size. So then I picked “Ages of Rock,” but again all they had left was smallContinue reading “Age Rocks”
Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings 