The Arches & Green Point Geological Site

We headed back south to Gros Morne. Then we made some day trip visits in and around the park.

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The Arches Provincial Park. A curious rock formation made of dolomite. The rounded boulders that make up the ‘seashore’ were hard to walk on but beautiful.
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Beautiful rounded boulders on the beach. Too big to bring home…
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This is the area called “Green Point Geological Site” (that spit of land jutting out in the background). It is part of Gros Morne National Park and is considered a “World Geological Benchmark”. Fossils discovered here define the boundary between the Cambrian and Ordovician periods.
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Below: Beach Boulders and Jennie in a Canadian Red Adirondack Chair. “Parks Canada has placed over 200 red Adirondack chairs in peaceful and scenic locations throughout many of the country’s most unique and treasured places”

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The view of Green Point from Jennie’s chair
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Looking down from the edge
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Lobster traps along the coast at Green Point. Labrador is across the water.
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Colorful, Interesting Rocks. Maybe I should have been a geologist…

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