Monday, March 14, 2011

This Field Rocks

Tucked in a shallow valley in northeastern Pennsylvania is a mysterious geologic feature: 16 acres of sandstone boulders. Science Friday took a trip to Hickory Run State Park's "boulder field" and spoke with Megan Taylor, environmental education specialist, about why the rocks collected there. Could you find any place close by that you could find this many rocks in one place?  What do you think about this area how did it form?


Field of Rocks

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

No you can't find a place close by that you could find so many rocks in one place. I think the area of the rocks was pretty amazing because I would have never imagined thst so many rocks could end up in one place. It fomed when the temp. droped and the glaicer that formed over North America, melted and hardened and formed into a rock collection.


Anna and Sam

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

WOW! Thats alot of rocks. I think its cool how all the rocks got there. It looks really cool. I thought the video was cool how they showed what rally happened.

Joseph Pegg said...

The field rocks are hard and some of them are rough.