The Glaciers Did It

The Glaciers Did It (HM2M1S)

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N 39° 54.775', W 83° 13.083'

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How did Big Darby Creek get here? Why is the land all around the Darby Watershed so flat? Why are there so many different rocks in the creek? One word...glaciers!

At least four times in the last two million years large continental glaciers covered northern North America including much of Ohio. Continental glaciers are massive sheets of ice that move very slowly. In some parts of Ohio they were almost a mile thick. Each time a glacier moved through Ohio it would move forward (advance) then melt back (retreat) many times. The ice acted like a giant belt sander and conveyer belt, grinding down the rock and then picking it up and carrying it forward.

When the glaciers melted and retreated, they dropped their rocky content leaving a thick layer of gravel containing clay, sand, pebbles and boulders, called till. Much of the rocky material that traveled in the glacier was from Canada. Rocks moved from their place of origin by natural forces, such as a glacier, are called "Glacial Erratics."

More than 10,000 years ago, the final retreat of the last glacier, called the Wisconsinan, formed the area now known as the Darby Plains and the Big Darby Creek watershed. Water rushing from the melting ice cut stream channels, like the Big Darby Creek. The streambed of the creek contains hard igneous and metamorphic



erratic rocks, like granite and gneiss from Canada. There are also softer sedimentary rocks, such as limestone, shale, and sandstone from Ohio.
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HM NumberHM2M1S
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Placed ByColumbus and Franklin County Metro Parks
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Date Added Monday, October 21st, 2019 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 310419 N 4420447
Decimal Degrees39.91291667, -83.21805000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 54.775', W 83° 13.083'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 54' 46.5" N, 83° 13' 4.98" W
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