Hanging Rock and Other Marvels
Hanging Rock while it is no Haynesville Shale and we will never find any natural gas here, it is a geographical marvel. And I'm not talking about Marvel Comics, creator of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four....did I leave out the Silver Surfer?..... that's enough of that, however we do have great surfing at Second Beach, at the foot of St. George's School, one of our great local prep schools, another being Portsmouth Abbey, right next door
to Carnegie Abbey Club, where footpaths well worn by the sandals of Benedictine monks wind through historic coastal trails, where, during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Rhode Island was fought.
Hanging Rock… a vast conglomerate ledge frequented by Bishop Berkeley (the noted eighteenth-century Age of Enlightement philosopher), was formed some 300 million years ago, from glacial erosion. This ridge is an amazing conglomeration of sedimentary rock called puddingstone.
This area of outcropping conglomerate rocks with bold rock faces has a series of parallel ridges, which include Paradise Rocks, Hanging Rock, and Purgatory Chasm are among the most interesting and important geological features of Rhode Island. The glaciers also left us with wonderful beaches.
to Carnegie Abbey Club, where footpaths well worn by the sandals of Benedictine monks wind through historic coastal trails, where, during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Rhode Island was fought.Hanging Rock… a vast conglomerate ledge frequented by Bishop Berkeley (the noted eighteenth-century Age of Enlightement philosopher), was formed some 300 million years ago, from glacial erosion. This ridge is an amazing conglomeration of sedimentary rock called puddingstone.
This area of outcropping conglomerate rocks with bold rock faces has a series of parallel ridges, which include Paradise Rocks, Hanging Rock, and Purgatory Chasm are among the most interesting and important geological features of Rhode Island. The glaciers also left us with wonderful beaches.Labels: Bishop Berkeley, Hanging Rock, Kim Doherty, Middletown
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That is the true beauty of our coastline where you can move from granite to beaches to shale and other forms of rock in very short spans. We do have it all!
Middletown rocks!
It's Benedictine monks...not Dominican.
Portsmouth Abbey (under the patronage of St. Gregory the Great) is a community of Benedictine monks.
Kim, you write such nice pieces on natural beauty of Aquidneck Island. Could you write something about the Norman Bird Sanctuary?
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