Blue Jay Barrens

Blue Jay Barrens has many examples of hostile environments, but the most life unfriendly has got to be the breccia hills. These steep slopes...

On the upper slopes of an old cedar covered hillside, can be found piles of limestone slabs. The pieces were created when a meteor struck th...

Heavy spring rains caused flood waters to tear through the creek channels at Blue Jay Barrens. This is a point in the creek where high water...

When the water disappears from the creek, what’s left is mainly rocks. I don’t know nearly enough about geology. I know the basic rock types...

Any force that can shatter limestone can certainly have its way with soft shale. I’m speaking of the meteor strike and how it rearranged the...

The Blue Jay Barrens landscape is all about the rocks. Narrow bands of strong limestone bedrock resisted erosional forces and remained in pl...

Occasionally I find a chunk of odd sandstone type rock full of fossils. There seems to be an immense number of species represented here. ...

This is the obstacle that forces the straight creek channel to form a curve. In the process, rock is moved and the bank falls away. When r...