Rock City Park Cairns - Olean, NY - Cairns on Waymarking.com

The cairns appear to be modern. They sit on top of the ground and look like they are puddingstone, which is the same type of rock that forms the Rock City Park formations. They sit on either side of the entrance to the park, which has been open to the public since 1890.



History of Rock City Park (Taken from their website):

Rock City Park is a prehistoric ocean floor called ocean spar. Quartz flowed from high mountains through swift rivers to this area and settled in the sand and mud. After millions of years it formed into a natural concrete, which is quartz conglomerate, also called puddingstone. The quartz is estimated to be a half billion years old and the rock three hundred twenty million years old. It extends from here, seventy feet deep, to West Virginia and into Ohio where it is about fourteen hundred feet deep.

During the uplift of the Appalachian Mountain Range and after erosion down to the level of two thousand three hundred fifty feet, this rock was left barren. What makes Rock City Park unique and one of the great scenic wonders of the world is that the glacier did not touch this area making it the largest formation of its type in the world. The uplift, frost, weathering and erosion has broken this giant rock floor into huge monolithic formations three and four stories high.

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Cairn Location: Entrance to Rock City Park Cairn Purpose: Unknown Cairn Condition: Type if different from above list: Not listed Types of rock: Not listed

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