Cascadilla Gorge

英語のクラスの課外活動で、カスカディーラ渓谷に行った時のお話。
ツアーガイドの人に、色々と歴史を教えてもらった。
でも、地質学は難しいなあ。

I went to the Cascadilla Gorge last Saturday.
It was one of the activities organized by the ESL class.
The person who works for the Cornell Plantations gave us a tour of the gorge.

The lower section of Cascadilla Gorge is truly a "gorges" display of rock, water
and trees. Cascadilla Creek drops 400 feet from campus to downtown Ithaca,
carving through bedrock - shales, siltstone and sandstone - exposing sedi-
mentary rocks that were deposited 400 million years ago.

We walked through the gorge trail looking around the creek, rocks and trees.
The tour guide gave us an explanation of the geologic history of Cascadilla and
fall creek gorges using many pictures.