I sent some photos to
Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration asking if it was a Meteor I had found. They sent back a nice little email telling me it was a perfectly round rock due to the ice age 11,000 years ago in the Niagara Region on the escarpment. I felt kind of foolish but honestly I was so excited when I took the photos. I was looking to discover the next BIG thing. I was kind of disappointed and bummed out when I found out it was just a plain old rock. I'm going to share the photos here with you of the view there. It's also in a video I created on
http://www.youtube.com/ideagirlconsulting
This photo is a rock that had unusual things in it. I figured it belongs to an old 1800s foundation but not quite sure what it was.
Hallo Linda,
> Thanks for sending your finding description and the pics. No worries about the rocks -they are not meteorites, but instead were left by the last glaciers ~11,000 years ago! The big boulders are called glacial `erratics' because they do not come from the local bedrock around here!
> Looks like a nice area to walk!
> Cheers,
> -pjam
>
> Phil McCausland
> CPSX Postdoctoral Fellow
> Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration
> c/o Department of Earth Sciences,
> University of Western Ontario
> 1151 Richmond St.,
> London, ON Canada N6A 5B7
> http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/people/phil
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