Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. The park is part of the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area. The exposed fossil beds of the Jeffersonville Limestone dated from the Devonian period are the main feature of the park, attracting about 160,000 visitors annually ...
The shallowness of the falls provided a favored crossing point for bison in pre-settlement times and, later, an easy crossing for Native Americans. In 1990, a section of the area in Indiana became the Falls of the Ohio State Park. An interpretive center is open throughout the year.
2. Buckeye Lake State Park. Discover Ohio’s oldest state park, a cherished day-use gem located in Millersport. Once a feeder lake for Ohio’s canal system in the 1800s, Buckeye Lake has been a ...
The Jeffersonville is a coarse grained, dark gray, thick bedded, fossiliferous limestone. [2]R. D. Perkins (1963) divided the Jeffersonville into five zones based on petrology and fossil content, [4] and these are summarized below (in stratigraphic order):
Hocking Hills State Park is a state park in the Hocking Hills region of Hocking County, Ohio, United States. In some areas the park adjoins the Hocking State Forest. Within the park are over 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails, rock formations, waterfalls, and recess caves. The trails are open from dawn to dusk, all year round, including holidays ...
The road to fracking under Ohio's state parks and wildlife areas has been paved with secrecy, opponents say.
This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill.
state The only known bog of its type in existence. Part of Cranberry Bog State Nature Preserve. Dysart Woods: 1967: Belmont: state One of the finest remaining examples of the white oak forests of eastern Ohio. Managed by Ohio University. Fort Hill State Memorial: 1974