Thursday, November 23, 2017

Boulder Field of Hickory Run State Park

Hickory Run State Park , located inwards northern Carbon County , on the Pocono Plateau of northeastern Pennsylvania , is habitation to i of the well-nigh hitting geological characteristic inwards the state. It’s a huge bed of rocks criterion only about 400 feet past times 1 ,800 feet together with at to the lowest degree 12 feet deep , containing a jumbled assortment of loosely packed boulders —most of them medium-sized , less than four feet inwards diameter , although some of them measures upwardly to 25 feet. The boulder plain is extremely build clean , inwards the feel that in that place is no fine fabric such equally sand or clay filling the infinite betwixt the boulders. And if y'all heed closely , y'all tin sometimes listen H2O flowing beneath the rocks.

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Photo credit: Beth Mahoney/Flickr

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Photo credit: Ravi Shah/Flickr

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Photo credit: Kyle Wagaman/Flickr

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Sources: Wikipedia / www.poconorecord.com / www.dcnr.state.pa.us

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