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Sat Jun 15, 2019: Trip: Kakabeka Falls and Area
Sat Jun 15, 2019: Trip: Kakabeka Falls and Area
Please assemble at the Kakabeka Falls main parking lot by 9:30am, particilary if you need to fill out a membership form or waiver.
Tour will start from 10 am sharp to 4 pm. Mark Puumala, of the Ontario Geological Survey, will lead a tour of the rock formations and unusual exposures in the Kakabeka Falls area.
All are welcome.
Please wear appropriate footwear.
Event Handouts:
Kakabeka Falls Field Trip Write up (DRAFT)
Just to note, the sky was sky blue for most of the day. Very nice weather.
The tour started about 10:30a with Mark providing an overview of the geology of the area using a number of presentation boards throughout the tour.
We then toured Kakabeka Falls viewed from both sides and above along the bridge.
Stopped at Hwy11/17 and Hwy 590 (Boreal Road) to view stromatalies in roadside embankment. Also pyrites and ?anthracite? coal.
Proceeded up Hwy 11/17 turned west onto Briggs Drive and visited a glacial till (esker?) site which showed the immense power and water activity that occurred as the glacial melt (10k years ago) carried larger boulders of conglomerate materials down through a delta spreading into the superior rift (Lake Superior area).
Next we travelled along Hwy 11/17 to Hwy 102 and then back to Mud Lake Rd where several good examples of pillowed lava can be found in the Hwy 102 rock cut there.
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Kakabeka Falls, Ontario
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