Panuke Lake – A 30 km long ribbon EarthCache
Panuke Lake – A 30 km long ribbon
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Nova Scotia was once under a glacier. This fact is well documented, and when the glaciers moved across this province it created many glacial features which we all take for granted. (Mainly due to the fact we see them every day).
This particular Earthcache will bring you to a glacial feature called a “Ribbon Lake”.
A Ribbon Lake is typically a long, narrow lake along a glacial trough. It is created when a glacier moves over an area containing alternate bands of hard and soft bedrock. The rocks carried at the bottom of the glacier (called an erratic once the glacier spits them out) erode the softer rock more quickly by abrasion, creating a hollow called a rock basin. When the glacier melts, the deepest sections of this basin are filled with the melted glacier water and other waters from the region. This creates a ribbon lake.
The interior of Panuke Lake itself is a protected environment due to the old-growth eastern hemlock-red spruce forest, which is a remnant of a once-common forest type in Nova Scotia. However, for this Earthcache you will not be entering any protected areas. You will however be traversing some difficult terrain and be doing a lot of driving, mainly due to the fact that the lake is 30km long, and there are no direct routes to either end of the lake.
Your Mission to log this EarthCache is not an easy one:
1) A pic of yourself with GPS as close to the northern tip of Panuke Lake where the dam is – ensure the dam is in the picture along with yourself and GPS. Found at: N44 56.612 W064 02.371 - You may also use the dam further down stream at around N44 55.554 W064 02.507.
2) 2 Pictures at the southern tip of Panuke Lake where it turns into Southwest Brook. One showing yourself and GPS at the location, the other showing the GPS up close showing the cords to show you are actually there Found at: N44 42.978 W064 09.886
This will not be an easy location to get to, and you will more than likely need an off road vehicle to get close, otherwise you are in for a long hike. You may also be able to canoe to this location. You will need to locate suitable canoe drop points for this.
3) The information I want you to email to me is the following: You need to tell me how long it will take for a leaf to reach from one end of the valley to the other. To do this you need to test the water velocity. This is done by dropping a leaf in the water and timing how long the leaf takes to travel 10 meters. You take this information and translate this into meters per seconds. This measurement can be done at the second location. Take the measurement and apply it to 30km.
Once you have it, Email the time it would take for that leaf to travel the entire length of the lake. Do not post the information.
Logs without the pics and the answers emailed will be deleted.
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