DYKE
LICHEN
As you walk this south facing shoreline you cannot help but notice the beautiful yellow/orange lichen covering patches of the rock surface.
TASKS
Your Earthcaching tasks are as follows:
1) Describe the angle to which the Schists are tilted in the rock face cutting on the opposite side of the road to the lay-by.
2) Observe the schist at this location and describe the major differences to the surrounding rock.
3) If the original clay sediments are subjected to high temperature and pressure, they successively change into rocks, the correct order of which is:
(a) Slate, Shale, Schist (b) Shale, Schist, Slate (e) Slate, Schist, Shale (d) Shale, Slate, Schist
4) Observe the Schist on either side of the dyke and describe what has happened to the rock and why.
5) At the roche mutonnee site shown in the photo above name the large peak (munro) in the distance, left of centre.
Bonus points if you can name the beautiful yellow / orange lichen.
Send the answers to 1-4 in an email to the cache owner via his profile with the heading UP SCHIST CREEK.
Do not post the answers in your log.
Optional task:
We all like to prove the integrity of our claim so a photo of you or your GPS at the Dyke would be great. Careful not to give the game away.
Cachers can log the cache before receiving my confirmation email as any logs from cachers who haven't sent the answers will be quietly deleted!
You must carry out these educational tasks as required by the Earthcaching organisation as a condition of logging the cache.
Logs that do not adhere to these guidelines will be deleted without notification.
For further info: http://www.lochabergeopark.org.uk/index.asp
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