Layers of St. Croix History: Reading the Rocks
We are fortunate to partner with the Greg Seitz of St. Croix 360 for an incredible summer paddle series.
“Layers of St. Croix History” trips will offer a relaxing paddle down the river as Greg shares stories about unique aspects of the river’s past.
These seven-mile trips will take you past geologic features, natural wonders, and important places for human history. While each trip will highlight a specific historic theme, we will also look for birds, fish, mussels, flowers and other wildlife that are part of the river’s past, present and future.
Paddle 3: Reading the Rocks
Date: 3–8 p.m. August 8
Location: WI Interstate to Log House Landing
The St. Croix Valley has long attracted geologists who have studied the stories told by its layers of bedrock and varied surfaces. From primordial volcanoes to Cambrian seas to the coming and going of glaciers, the land has been shaped and reshaped over unimaginable spans of time. Learn about a billion years of Earth history, how it is still shown in the landscape today, and about some of the scientists who have investigated the river’s geology over the past two centuries. (Take home a geologic map.)
