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No I am just kidding, I like the shale cliff but it is not my favorite.
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In Madison Township in Lake County, Ohio, on May 12th, 2020, a cliff above Mill Creek as viewed off the "Bluebell Valley Path" trail in Hogback Ridge Metropolitan Park.
Mill Creek flows to the Grand River, which flows to Lake Erie &c.
I am confident that the cliff is composed either entirely or predominantly of Chagrin Shale, a stratigraphic member of the Ohio Shale from the Famennian age (372.2 ±1.6 to 358.9 ±0.4 mya) of the Late Devonian epoch of the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Lake (county) (1002570)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• cliffs (300008749)
• Devonian (300391468)
• gray (color) (300130811)
• Paleozoic (300391254)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• riverine landscapes (300435110)
• rivers (300008707)
• shale (300011281)
• spring (season) (300133097)
• temperate deciduous forests (300387649)
Wikidata items:
• 12 May 2020 (Q57396738)
• Allegheny Plateau (Q654947)
• Appalachian Plateau (Q620627)
• Chagrin Shale (Q17515425)
• Connecticut Western Reserve (Q1126227)
• county park (Q5177940)
• Erie Drift Plain (Q64072343)
• Erie Gorges (Q64072601)
• Famennian (Q253839)
• Glaciated Allegheny Plateau (Q5566114)
• Greater Cleveland (Q5600502)
• Hogback Ridge Metropolitan Park (Q49502139)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
• Lake Metroparks (Q84833648)
• Madison Township (Q6728174)
• May 12 (Q2559)
• May 2020 (Q55019753)
• Mill Creek (Q105069615)
• Ohio Shale (Q18158146)
• outcrop (Q531953)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• Treaty of Greenville (Q767317)
• Upper Devonian (Q10265844)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Parks—Ohio (sh85098185)
• Rivers—Ohio (sh85114372)
28 Sixth Street, New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Cliff Building is a four-storey plus lower level Edwardian-era masonry commerical structure located on a steeply sloped site at the corner of Sixth and Clarkson Streets, in New Westminster's historic downtown core.
Heritage Value:
The Cliff Building is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of downtown New Westminster, which dates from 1898 to 1913, when the city was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area.
Built in 1910, the Cliff Building is valued for its construction history. This prominent structure was built at the extraordinary pace of one floor per week. The building was composed of B.C. Douglas fir girders, covered with plasterboard in the interests of fireproofing. The pressed tan bricks used for the exterior cladding came from the Clayburn brick factory in Matsqui. Other construction brick was manufactured at the Westminster Brick Works. Typical of commercial buildings of the Edwardian era, the facade has elements of the Classical Revival style. The double-hung windows cover a great deal of the wall surface, illustrating the desire for ever greater amounts of glazing and light, and the gradual shift toward a lighter appearance of buildings. It was built during the Edwardian era building boom for an investment group headed by Ronald Lorraine Cliff (1881-1953), a lumber manufacturer.
The Cliff Building is valued for its association with its architect Henry Sandham Griffith (1865-1943), a prominent architect with successful offices in both Victoria and Vancouver, known for designing all types and styles of buildings, from skyscrapers to palatial residences. He executed several commissions in New Westminster including the Coulthard-Sutherland Building.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Cliff Building include its:
- location on a steeply sloping site at the corner of Sixth and Clarkson Streets, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- form and scale as expressed by its four-storey plus lower level height, recessed central entry on Sixth Street, flat roof and cubic massing
- smooth dressed sandstone foundation with exterior cladding of pressed tan bricks
- Classical Revival influence, as demonstrated in: the tripartite facade articulation; vertical brick pilasters with a solid base, shaft and detailed capital; and intermediate cornices with dentils above the storefronts
- side entry on Clarkson Street with horizontal metal sign above "Cliff Building - 1910"
- regular fenestration, with double-hung wooden-sash windows
- rectangular storefront windows of varied size due to the slope of the hill, with wooden profiles and transoms
- mosaic floor tiles at main entry
- interior elements such as wooden window trim
- interior heavy timber frame structure of Douglas fir beams
It well worth the trip to visit under the bridge at River Road in Sykesville to watch the Cliff Swallows. You can actually stand directly under some of the nests (too dark to get a picture of the close ones). Such fun to watch and listen to them squeaking and chattering :)
There were waterfalls everywhere. It rains frequently on the north side of Molokai, and the pilot said the previous day's rains had been very significant -- leading to extremely full waterfalls. Scale is difficult to communicate here, but
Formed by two huge volcanoes, Banks Peninsula sits to the east of Christchurch city and is a distinctive feature of the east coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Once covered in tall native forest the peninsula has been burned and felled in the early history of human settlement in New Zealand to the extent that only tiny scraps of the original cover remain.
Nevertheless it is a dramatic landscape with spectacular volcanic cliffs, and steeply rolling hills covered in grasses, scrub and forest remnants and often topped by volcanic crags and outcrops.
Godley heads is a popular walking and mountainbiking area only minutes from Christchurch city on the northern bank of Lyttelton harbour, the harbour itself being a sea-drowned crater.
With protection, some of the orginal forest is regenerating and birds locally extinct on the peninsula (or nearly so) such as the korimako (bellbird) are coming back.
The harsh climate and unique landscape of the peninsula and the neighbouring Kaitorete Spit have produced a number of plant and insect species not found anywhere else in New Zealand.
Gonarezhou NP:
y journey into the heart of Gonarezhou begins with the realisation that this is wild country. It is one of Africa’s last remaining pristine wildernesses and we are all privileged to be a visitor here. The animals are in their most natural state at Gonarezhou; these are no lazy photographic models, hassled by a constant cavalcade of jeeps, radioing one another in their relentless pursuits. This is a country of red sandstone, thorny scrub and baobabs. Buffalo gather at watering holes, big cats prowl silently in pursuit of painted impala, hippo wallow midstream attended by squadrons of fluttering birds. The presence of elephants is everywhere; on the earth and the vegetation, as their families travel along routes passed from one matriarch to another in search of food, safety, and water. A panorama of birdlife gathers at Tembahata and Machanu Water Pans, a flying, wading tumult of colour, while the wonders of Chilojo Cliffs and Chivilila Falls reveal the glories of the unique landscape.