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jimdiane
Member
Post Number: 10
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 6:29 am: | 
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What are these rock signatures on the end of the portage at Colin Scott lake caused from?
thanx
jim |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1444
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 9:35 am: |
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Humans who have at least grade five writing skills. |
jimdiane
Member
Post Number: 11
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 4:57 pm: |
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Well I did see all the "inscribed names and initials" while we waited for the winds to die down 
But what I would like to know what are all the deep, straight gouges that are all over the slanted stone ground? On the map it says rock signatures and I foolishly assumed that it was all these gouges that were made, possibly from logging or heavy forest equipment?
jim |
ed
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Post Number: 1199
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 6:49 pm: |
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Some of these initials and name carvings are quite old, going back into the 1920's and before that.
I think that some people had little respect for the land back then.....some of the travellers today have even less respect.
A problem that we need to keep working on, if we are ever to resolve it. |
grncnu
Member
Post Number: 232
Registered: 08-2010
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 8:11 pm: |
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if you're talking about deep parallel gouges in bedrock (not cracks), these are called glacial striations and are common throughout the shield. they were caused by moving glaciers dragging sharp, very hard rocks across the bedrock surface. |
doug_2
Member
Post Number: 179
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 12:52 pm: |
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Anamanipissing and Bay Lake have many rock carvings (signitures carved into the rocks on campsites). Part of the reason why there is that the bedrock there is fairly easy to carve into. Certain Keewaydin guides and others have carved their names in those old days. It was sort of a ritual I guess. At least they did a good job of it then. These days there are way too many people around for anyone to be doing that . In the parks it is an offence for instance. Probably on Crown land too. What once once Ok in days when there were few people around is now not OK. Anyone interested in seeing how out of control this can be ...check out Harold's Point in Kilbear Provincial Park. One side of the point is just covered in modern rock carvings...not good. They are not going away. This happened there even though it is a small park with wardens and so on but people just sneak around and do it. Many signed their own names and hometown so possibly they were fined,,,not sure. |
bushwacker
Member
Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 11:33 pm: |
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Some of these grooves may also be caused by snowmobiles with studded tracks. The sun melts the snow on that side of the hill in winter causing snowmobiles to travel up the bare rock. Most of the trails in the area are travelled in the winter. On the up side of that most of the trails would be overgrown without them. |
brian
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Post Number: 1448
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 8:27 am: |
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Jimdiane did say the gouges were deep, which snowmobiles, and even logging sleighs, do not leave. It's deep gouges for glaciers and scratches for snowmobiles. |
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