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Rivers in Rock: Elora Gorge Field Companion and Natural History

English

By (author): Kenneth Hewitt

This richly illustrated book is both a visitors guide to one of southwestern Ontarios most striking landforms the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River and a thorough, accessible introduction to its natural and recent human history.

The book introduces rivers that flow in bedrock, between rock walls and through precipitous gorges, unlike the subdued terrain that the last Ice Age bequeathed most of southwestern Ontario. It then leads the visitor to three viewpoints on and three excursions through the gorge, with a wealth of information about its rocks, fossils, caves, cliffs, rockslides, rockfalls, floods and erosional processes. It takes the reader through five ages of the gorge. In the First Age the gorge bedrock originated as reef limestone 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas. The Second Age saw the gorge rocks make a great, 400-million-year journey from tropical seas to the heart of a continent via plate tectonics. In the Third Age, the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet created conditions 17,000 to 15,000 years ago in which ice lobes, glacial lakes and meltwater spillways interacted to incise the gorge in an ice-free area known as the Ontario Island. In the Fourth Age the gorge, nestled in an immense forest, developed at a slower pace moderated by dense woods, fallen branches and beaver dams. In the Fifth Age, the gorge entered the Anthropocene as European settlers came to disrupt and dominate its development and unlock its secrets.

Full of original photographs, maps and diagrams, Rivers in Rock is an authoritative guide to the Elora Gorge that will fascinate visitors and researchers alike.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 215g
  • Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781771125802

About Kenneth Hewitt

Kenneth Hewitt is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo Ontario. He studies geomorphology disasters and mountain environments in the Karakoram Himalaya and beyond. His books include Interpretations of Calamity (1983) Elora Gorge: A Visitors Guide (1995) Regions of Risk (1997) and Glaciers of The Karakoram Himalaya (2014). He lived in Elora for 33 years.

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