Grey Highlands Rocks
What is this Rock?On November 10th between 1-4 pm I went to the rock identification event at South Grey Museum with the rock shown above. Geologist Peter von Bitter, a museum member and curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto was there to identify it for me. I had no idea what it was.
Peter told me that it was a Stromatoporoid, a kind of sponge 430 million years old. (Give or take a million or so) It is a colonial creature which means that it is a lot of small creatures living together to form a larger formation.
It started out as CaCo3 and is later replaced by Quartz and it is from the Niagara Escarpment. It was found in Eugenia. It was probably carried here by the glaciers during the ice age.
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posted by Party of one | 10:17 AM
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Dear Correspondant
Do you have any pictures of Flesherton this winter? We would be very interested to hear how the winter is going this year and whether you have had any of those magical days where the snow glistens in the winter sun.
Thanks for your comment. I haven't been out taking winter pictures yet. We do have lots of snow and it is lovely. If I notice any of those days when the snow is sparkling, I'll try to take some pictures and post them.
It's very wintery, we are headed for a white Christmas. In the meantime best wishes for a snowy holiday season.
If you care to share, tell us, do you visit Flesherton and area often?
Dear Correspondant
We are regular holiday visitors 2 - 3 times a year and are gradually getting to know the area.
Many thanks for the recent photo.
We don't get real snow at home.
Best wishes for the new year
Manx Mike
wow;; the pond looks good in that pic... are you sure thats a recent pic. i havent seen it looking that clean for a while :O
That picture was taken Sept 2007. Probably a day or two before I posted it.
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