Onsdag (Wednesday) 2/26/14
Geology field trip!! One of the courses we are taking is "Climate, Energy and the Environment". Right after breakfast we boarded the vans and took off around the Siljan Ring Structure. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact crater in Dalarna, central Sweden. It is one of the 18 largest known impact craters on Earth and the largest in Europe with a diameter of about 32 miles.
Geology field trip!! One of the courses we are taking is "Climate, Energy and the Environment". Right after breakfast we boarded the vans and took off around the Siljan Ring Structure. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact crater in Dalarna, central Sweden. It is one of the 18 largest known impact craters on Earth and the largest in Europe with a diameter of about 32 miles.
The meteor turned the limestone from horizontal to vertical with its impact.
The rocks are filled with fossils, like the one Jorgen is holding
On our trip we visited a Lutheran Church overlooking the Siljan Ring.
They used the fossil filled limestone for the floor of the church.
For lunch we cooked out overlooking the Ratvik Plain. Pat was our "outdoor housewife" as Sidney called him. He helped with fire and cooking.
We had delicious potatoe salad and cake from the kitchen at the school.
Many lakes were formed by the meteor and the ice age. We walked out on a long bridge they built so that boats could dock. Hannah and I pose in front of the city Orsa.
We also visited a museum that talked about the geology and nature of the area.
Always pictures of food! It is easy to tell where it ranks in your value system. What is the tripod on the ice for? To tell when the ice goes out? There are betting pools all over Alaska on when that happens, and they use similar tripods for precise timing.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what the tripod is for. That is a great guess though :) I just thought it looked pretty.
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