Oregon Caves, Coast and Cheese

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August 28th 2008

Published: September 4th 2008

In Crescent City, California, we took a detour from the 101 and took Highway 199 to Cave Junction, Oregon, in order to visit Oregon Caves National Monument. Not only is Oregon Caves National Monument one of only a few National Parks in Oregon, they are also very rare caves in that they are made of marble. Only 5% of the world's caves are marble, most are limestone. As is the case with the major... Read Full Entry

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This is a blurry image of the heart of the cave. He he.

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Niagara Falls

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Niagara Falls. The broken pieces are from visitors in the 1800s who would break them off as souvenirs, thinking that they would just grow right back. They don't. These took 300,000 years to form.

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The signature of a visitor from 1897. They used pencil thinking that it would be erasable later on. A volunteer in the 1930s went back with a huge eraser to try to clean it all up, and was unable. What happened was that the formation is made of many clear layers of crystal, and between the time that the people had written on them, and they were to be erased, a few layers had been deposited on top, preventing their erasure.