N 43° 40.963 W 080° 26.040 Co-ordinates above are for top of
staircase, for out of town visitors. The Elora Gorge is a popular
tourist attraction located at the western edge of Elora, Ontario,
Canada, which is about 25 km from the city of Guelph through
highway 6.
The Grand River flows through the bottom of the gorge,
approximately 2 km long, with limestone cliffs reaching 22 m
high.
It was formed from glacial meltwaters from the previous ice
age.
A gorge is a deep crevasse cut into rock. Gorges are created when a
glacier melts away very quickly. As the last sheet of ice receded,
the melt waters joined what we know now as the Grand River. With
the quick melt of the glacial area the river cut through the
sediment rock. This took place between 12,000 to 14,000 years
ago.
The sediment rock here dates back millions of years when this
entire area was sea water. The sediment became rock and fossilized
the sea bottom some 350 million years ago.
Email me do not post your answers. To log this cache:
1. Please take two pictures of you and your group and include
the gorge. (One from the top and one at water level)
2. Tell me the elevation change from the water level up to the
top of the gorge.
3. Have fun.