Title:
RINGING ROCKS PARK, BUCKS COUNTY, PA.

Description:
Me and some friends made a trip out to Ringing Rocks Park to make sounds. My idea to cover 'Candy Hearts And Paper Flowers' from the soundtrack to 'Raggedy Ann And Andy In A Musical Adventure' never quite materialized, but this is as close as we came. I think it sounds good. About Ringing Rocks: "Ringing Rocks Park is a 128 acre park nestled in the woods in Upper Black Eddy. Located within the park is a field of boulders, about 7-8 acres in size, that have an unusual property. When the rocks are struck with a hammer or another rock, they sound as if they are metal and hollow and ring with a sound similar to a metal pipe being struck. The park also has Bucks County's largest waterfall. Besides the strange ringing properties of the stones, there are other mysteries surrounding this park. One odd thing about the park is that most boulder fields are the result of an avalanche from a mountainside collapsing. This boulder field, however, is towards the top of the hill, not the bottom. That means it didn't result from a rock slide. There is also no evidence to suggest that these were dropped here by a glacier as glaciers were not thought to have come this far south. How did this boulder field get to be like this? The boulders are made of a substance called diabase which is basically volcanic basalt. This is one of the largest diabase boulder fields in the Eastern United States. The boulders have a high content of iron and aluminum and were thought to have broken apart during the Pleistocene Epoch probably about 12,000 years ago. The boulders were created through many years of freeze-thaw cycles that broke up the diabase into individual pieces, a process known as "frost wedging". The rocks may then have accumulated in this one area as the water saturated soil provided lubrication for the stones to "creep" downhill to their present location, a process known as "solifluction". This could have happened during the prior ace ages when overlying most soil literally slid over the frozen permafrost below, carrying the boulders with it. Others have more fanciful explanations such as radioactivity, meteorites, or strange magnetic fields. Even supernatural possibilities have been suggested, and the area has been studied by those with an inclincation for the paranormal." -- Copied from http://www.davidhanauer.com/buckscounty/ringingrocks/

Author:
WhollyGhost

Tags:
And, Bucks, Candy, County, Flowers, Hearts, Paper, Park, Ringing, Rocks,