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Caption: Marker detail: Ancient Valley • Youthful Canyon
Additional Description: • Ancient Valley (1,000,000+ years old)
• Middle-aged Valley (100,000+ years old)
• Youthful Canyon (10,000+ years old)

Youthful Canyon
The largest rockfall in recorded park history started in the 1990s and would cover a football field more than ten feet deep with rock. The largest piece of rock is more than three stories high.

Old Growth Forest
This "upside-down" forest (Northern Hardwoods in the bottom; Central Hardwoods on top) may be the most diverse forest in the world at this latitude with 50 species of trees in 25 acres.
Submitted: December 3, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p504382
File Size: 2.912 Megabytes

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