Niagara Escarpment

[EscarpmentMary]

Today I am up loading a favourite fossil oof mine, I like it because of the calcite quartz geode in what appears to be a brachiopod shell. I live on the Niagara Escarpment. At one time the area was sitting just below the Paleozoicequator, tilted at a more 45 degree angle, in a more east/west direction than the land sits now. This explains the weird road angles to me now, probably formed when the terrain dictated the road directions, but I digress. The Niagara escarpment in Ontario starts at the Niagara Falls, follows along the Lake Ontario Shore, through the cities of St. Catherines, Hamilton, and Dundas, where it takes a sharp turn north in the town of Milton, toward Georgian Bay. It follows along the shoreline of Georgian Bay through Collingwood (The Blue Mountains) across over to Owen Sound, along the shoreline of the west side (where I live) over to the town of Wiarton, up the Bruce Peninsula and carry’s on from there. Having written all that, I need to mention the Ojibwa an Anishinaabe people are the indigenous peoples here, who live with us. I have observed with many of the fossils I find are worn as if the waters were quite turbulent, probably from the heavy tidal action during this time. The moon was much closer to the earth some 430 million years ago, our days were approximately 19 hours long as the earth was spinning faster, and the moon was also spinning. The gravitational forces must have been unbelievable! (Dynamic, biological and anthropology concequences of lunar and angular radii, Steven A Balbus, published 08 August 2014. These are my thoughts today, please let me know what you think.

[EscarpmentMary]

Did I say 45 degree, sorry I meant more like 15degree.

[Shamalama]

That is an interesting rock full of fossil shells and a little geode.   Welcome to the forum!

[EscarpmentMary]

Thank you