Acadia Rocks!


One national park I have visited four times which has an interesting geologic history is Acadia National Park in Maine. At only 65 square miles, it’s a small park compared to others, but it’s a beautiful area of the eastern seaboard.

Most of the park is in an area called Mount Desert Island. The topography is comprised of ridges and valleys running north and south that were excavated by massive ice sheets up to a mile thick. Protrusions of these immense ice sheets carved out lakes such as Eagle Lake and Jordon Pond on the west side of the park. The results of centuries of rocky seacoast being battered by waves has resulted in large, jutting granite formations with linear cracks and sea caves along the coast.

As these ice sheets thickened 21,000 year ago and moved over the area, they sheared off mountain tops giving them a flatter, rounded appearance like Cadillac Mountain which rises to 1530 feet - the tallest area on the eastern seaboard. At the top of Cadillac Mountain, where the glaciers smoothed off the surface of the mountain to rounded and relatively flat forms, colorful lichen has grown and hardened on the rock surfaces giving the area a beautiful, multi-colored appearance.

Whether you are a fan of earth science and geology, or if you just appreciate nature in all her colors and shapes, Acadia is a beautiful place to visit.

To see more colorful rock photos and more Acadia images, please visit my gallery here:
https://mary-bedy.pixels.com/collections/acadia+national+park+and+surrounding

Comments

  1. BillJune 29, 2020 at 10:23 PM

    Interesting. I love geology and also your photos of geology. You know what caused the end of the Ice Age you described, right? Of course, it's "global warming" that cause the melting of those great sheets of ice. :)

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    1. Mary BedyJune 29, 2020 at 10:28 PM

      Yes, indeed! But that exposed some pretty spectacular rocks for sure. Thanks for stopping by, Bill.

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