Thursday April 27^th 2017

A Stroll through 30 Million Years of Stanley Park’s Geological History

An interpretive field trip for Nature Vancouver

Trip leader: David Cook, Geologist.

Meeting time: 11 am

Meeting location: Will be revealed after registration.

Duration: 3 to 4 hours. You can leave at any time if you sign off on the waiver.

Terrain: Sea-wall walkway.

Length of walk: 4 kilometres return

Elevation gain: Flat

Event description: An interpretive walk along the sea-wall of Stanley Park to learn about the geology of the region. See how 40 to 70 million year old rivers laid down sand, silt, clay and minor coal over a period that included the waning years of the age of dinosaurs. Other features will be giant boulders of 100 million year old granite stranded by the retreating ice, remnants of ancient volcanoes, strange concretions in the sandstone, wave-cut notches in the cliff-face formed when the sea-level was higher. Low tide at the time of our walk will reveal other features such as wave-cut platforms formed by wave action over the last 5000 years, and see how First Nations peoples made use of the boulders left by the glaciers to make fish traps and where they removed large boulders for canoe access.

Registration: Because of a need to limit the size of the group and because the event may be rescheduled due to weather, registration is required. Contact David at cookeco2 [at] yahoo.com to register and receive details as to the meeting location. Register early as this event has been popular in the past.

Non-members are welcome but for liability reasons are limited to 3 field trips.