COTR Museia – An Unconventional Geological History of Cranbrook and the Kootenays
March 19 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Faculty in Arts and Sciences at College of the Rockies, in partnership with the Cranbrook Library, invites you to the next public lecture in the COTR Museia series taking place Wednesday, March 19th, 6:30pm- 8:30pm inside the College lecture theatre.
This lecture is free to attend but we do ask that you pre-register online to help us manage numbers.
Throughout the history of the Earth, there are many eclectic and unusual natural occurrences in the vicinity of Cranbrook. Did you know that the Rockies are situated in the wrong place and this mountain chain is also older than the Himalayas? The oldest seafloor in British Columbia is located at the Marysville Falls. Moreover, evidence of ancient volcanic activity is prevalent around Cranbrook, and there is a fault that passes under the city. We will explore how a hot spring formed the mineral deposits that later became the Kimberley Mine; how plate tectonics moved the area of Cranbrook between different locations; how the geology of the Kootenays is similar to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt; and how we know that glacial ice stopped moving just to the west of the College disc-golf area. This is the often-untold story of what happened around Cranbrook in the past.