Enchanted Rock Benchmark Geocoin-#3
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Owner:
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BirkieHiker
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Released:
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
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Origin:
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Oregon, United States
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Enchanted Rock State Natural Area consists of 1643.5 acres on Big Sandy Creek, north of Fredericksburg, Texas. This beautiful coin celebrates the beauty and uniqueness of the pink granite dome. Admire me, Discover me, and PLEASE keep me Moving from cache to cache and not into your collection!
The Rock is a huge, pink granite exfoliation dome, that rises 425 feet above ground, 1825 feet above sea level, and covers 640 acres. It is one of the largest batholiths (underground rock formation uncovered by erosion) in the United States. Tonkawa Indians believed ghost fires flickered at the top, and they heard weird creaking and groaning, which geologists now say resulted from the rock's heating by day and contracting in the cool night.
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