{"id":88,"date":"2014-08-23T02:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjcmeess.wpengine.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-08-23T02:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T02:01:42","slug":"dropstones-and-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/dropstones-and-blueberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropstones and Blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today started off with a delicious breakfast of waffles, with fresh (store bought) blueberries, strawberries, and bananas. \u00a0We hit the road in our SJC van around 8:30 am. \u00a0We were headed to Cherryfield, Maine, which deceivingly is actually the \u201cWild Blueberry Capital of the World\u201d. On our way there, we passed the Wyman\u2019s of Maine factory. \u00a0Anyone who buys frozen blueberries in Maine knows that Wyman\u2019s is the brand you buy. As we passed the factory, we smelled the scent of blueberries in the air. \u00a0We also drove past many of Wyman\u2019s blueberry fields, one of which was getting watered, spraying a little bit of water onto our windshield. \u00a0There, we stopped to look at the land, which was actually a flat delta and the highest elevation in that area. \u00a0Normally, deltas are not the highest spot in an area, so this was an interesting location. \u00a0We looked at the type of glacial sediments on top of the bedrock, which seemed to be mostly sand and gravel. \u00a0We also looked at really colorful geology surficial and bedrock maps, learning about ribbed moraines and how they were formed.<\/p>\n

Then, we moved onto another location in the area and Dr. Erikson used \u201cconveniently placed\u201d road dirt to teach us about triangulation and how to determine position using it. \u00a0He told us that before GPSs were invented, scientists based property lines off of data they got from measuring angles and distance between certain plaques on the ground.<\/p>\n

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After that, we drove to a field to look at erratics, which are rocks that are not where they are supposed to be. \u00a0There\u00a0was an entire field of them, all of various sizes, but one literally stood out to all of us.<\/p>\n

This large erratic was a dropstone, meaning that it once was a part of a glacier, but floated away from the glacier, inside of an iceberg. \u00a0As the iceberg melted, the rock fell out and dropped on the submerged delta. This specific rock was about 5 m high and 5 m across. A bunch of people wanted to climb it, and looking at the challenging climb it took them to get up to the top, it was not an easy one to say the least. \u00a0All around the boulder were fields and fields of blueberries. \u00a0We may have been trespassing, but we are not sure of that. Some of us picked a few of the lowbush blueberries and some of us climbed up on top of the rock. \u00a0Some of us did both. \u00a0Either way, it was a fun day for all of us.<\/p>\n

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-Nhu Vo<\/p>\n

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Today started off with a delicious breakfast of waffles, with fresh (store bought) blueberries, strawberries, and bananas. \u00a0We hit the road in our SJC van around 8:30 am. \u00a0We were headed to Cherryfield, Maine, which deceivingly is actually the \u201cWild Blueberry Capital of the World\u201d. On our way there, we passed the Wyman\u2019s of Maine … Continue reading Dropstones and Blueberries<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[10,16],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-sites","category-pursuing-science","tag-cherryfield","tag-glacial-geology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sjcme.edu\/ess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}