Sandrock Cliffs

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Sandrock Cliffs
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Sandrock Cliffs
Nearest city Grantsburg, Wisconsin
Area2.6 acres (1.1 ha)
NRHP reference # 90000632 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 1, 1990

The Sandrock Cliffs are located in Burnett County, Wisconsin. [2]

Burnett County, Wisconsin County in the United States

Burnett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,457. Its county seat is Siren, with the majority of county governmental services located at the Burnett County Government Center. The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1865.

History

The cliffs are remnants of the retreating Cambrian sea-left deep sandstone which was carved by glacial meltwater, revealing cliffs revered by indigenous people. In 1990, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 55.6 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 541 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period 485.4 mya. Its subdivisions, and its base, are somewhat in flux. The period was established by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name of Wales, where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed. The Cambrian is unique in its unusually high proportion of lagerstätte sedimentary deposits, sites of exceptional preservation where "soft" parts of organisms are preserved as well as their more resistant shells. As a result, our understanding of the Cambrian biology surpasses that of some later periods.

Sandstone A clastic sedimentary rock composed mostly of sand-sized particles

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized mineral particles or rock fragments.

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References

  1. National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Address Restricted". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-04-11.