Up A Creek With A Canadian EarthCache
Up A Creek With A Canadian
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FIRST FOUND BY:
RexC and the Girls on July 4,2008
The West Creek
West Creek is a 9 mile tributary of
the Cuyahoga River and encompasses a 14 square mile watershed. West
Creek has 10,000 years of history beginning with post-glacial
remnants. Early maps of the area mark West Creek first as Skinner
Creek. It is likely that the creek took its modern name from the
West family who lived along a tributary of the creek in
Independence Township, at least in the mid-to-late 19th century.
There were no east-west roads within the township that crossed its
entire breadth. The deep gorge that housed the wandering creek,
later called Quarry Creek, was the natural boundary that kept East
Parma and West Parma apart for more than 130 years.
Finding this Earthcache will involve getting your feet wet,
cachers will need to wade in West Creek in water that may be one to
two feet deep.
The Confluence
The location of this earth cache is a
confluence in the West Creek. A confluence, in geography, describes
the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to
the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the
mainstem, when that major river is also the highest order stream in
the drainage basin. On warm summer days cachers can notice a
significant temperature difference between the West Creek and this
tributary. This is due to the shallowness and water speed of the
tributary flowing into the slower moving deeper pool of the West
Creek.
The Canadian
The Canadian is the lone rock at the
mouth of confluence. This granite boulder is part of a collection
of boulders, cobbles and gravel that were carried here thousands of
years ago, perhaps by a catastrophic global flood, as it is not
native to this area. They are easily distinguishable from the
native rocks. The boulders, called erratics, can be seen throughout
this watershed and along water sheds all around North East
Ohio.
Logging Requirments
Answer the following questions by providing the
following measurements.
1) Using a tape measure what is height and circumference of the
Canadian?
2) Using your GPS measure the mouth of the confluence at its widest
point. (Start at the Canadian.)
3)Post of photo of yourself or caching team around the canadian,
faces must be visible.
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