Unique geological formations while in the woods

[bkmollen]

Has anyone come across any unique geological formations while in the woods throughout Ohio? Stuff like natural arches or bridges, pillars, tea tables, caves, waterfalls, large boulders/glacial erratics, etc....

[Hiller]

We had a field washout one time and it took the dirt out clear down to the sandstone... the sandstone had thousands of small ripples in it like what you see on the beaches in the sand... this was about 10 foot down in the ground.... it was kind of neat ... we broke a bunch of pieces out of it before we filled it in and took them home... they are now sitting around the frog pond :D

[ohiosam]

When I was in high school I found a rock out in the field. I was full of fossils I couldn't identify. I've kept it all these years and my oldest son took it to school to show his geology professor . Prof said it was fossilized coral, abt. 350 million years old. Prof was quit interested in it.

One of the places I hunt the landowner used to mine his own coal for his house. The opening is about 3' square, even has tracks for a mine car. They guy was mining it until the late 80's. Not sure how far back it goes. You couldn't pay me to go into that hole:coco:

[ap0317ah]

We had this tree huge fall in a the creek. After a while the water had hollowed out the trunk and it made a natural culvert it stayed like that for at least 5 years but it eventually collapsed. there are also places where one of the streams on our land goes underground for about 30 yards like a tunnel.
Tom

[Hiller]

Oh and I also found a rock in our field a few years back while groundhog hunting that had 3 tentacles attached to it... we took it to some professor of geology and he said it was some sort of prehistoric creature that attached itself to the floor of a body of water.. it was pretty interesting...

[deerhunter_matt]

I wasn't hunting, but back when I was in boyscouts, we went camping at camp falling rock (Newark) which already has some cool rock formations, cliffs, caves, etc. Well, we were walking along the border, and in the woods across from the camp, we could see a lot of big standing boulders and stuff. So, we walked over to check it out. Along with tons of good climbing boulders, there were a lot more caves, and when we climbed up to the top of one giant slab of rock, the whole south slope was covered with glacial grooves at about a 30 degree angle. It was pretty cool, we walked all through them, real neat.

[jhammer]

I was fishing along the river a few years ago and I found a rock that had a ton of fossilized snails and other creatures in it.

[Redhunter1012]

1 of the places we arrowhead hunt, has 3 natural creeks meet up and form a small natural island, maybe 60'x30'. On the one side is has a good size boulder that is pretty flat on the top. It doesn't have any marks or anything like that, but can't help but to think it was used for some ceremony or something.

[coonskinner]

a pregnant tree,,,there was a pic posted here a few years ago...maybe i can dig it up...:D

[Thunderflight]

I've never found anything interesting, but my Dad once found some indian or caveman grinding stones while digging a well. The area he found them was about 200 meters from the site where they found the Johnstown Mastodon.

[bkmollen]

Out at Paint Creek I discovered a natural arch.

[cjd3]

I was using a metal detector a few years ago around the base of a hudge tree It must have been orgional Ohio old growth. I would have taken 4 men to put their arms around it. It was in the gulf are of the ashtabula river. We had found ox shoes that i'm told were used around the middle 1800's to drag trees to the river where they would float/drag them down stream to the (then) ship yards on lake erie for masts. Any way, under this tree, about 3-4 inches down I found a button. Metal and sort of pot bellied. When I got home I cleaned it up. It had come off a union civil war solders jacket. Pretty cool. I could see him home after the war , sitting down under what would have been a much smaller tree having lunch or taking a break from work.
I cant help but stop and look at the rocks and stuff of stream beds when I'm in the woods. You never know what you'll discover.