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6 SUMMER RECREATION ISSUE, JULY 12, 1978
Ontario's landscape is
like a blackboard
The landscape of Southern
Ontario is a little like a blackboard
that has been written on over and
over again, with each successive
layer of writing imperfectly eras-
ed and still partly legible through
later layers, says Prof, Ward.
Chesworth„ Department of Land
Resource Science, University of
Guelph. Geologists try to read
through these layers, right back
to The earliest one, in the hope
that they O'an reconstruct a piece
of the earth's history,
The latest marks that have
been "Written " on the lands,
cape are the signs of the white
man's settlement of this country.
Towns, industries and cultivated
field, roads and railroads all. give
Ontario the comfortable "Lived
in"' look we take for granted.
Prof, Chesworth points out this
white man's layer is really quite
alien to the land underneath, a
land first colonized by the Indian
some 12,000 years ago. Even to
these first corners that older
landscape must have appeared
alien and inhospitable, with its
hilly moraines, gravel ridges and
sheets of sandy outwash by
unpredictable streams. There
were no forests then, to soften the
harsh features of the land. only a
sparse Arctic type of vegetation.
slowly taking over \vhere.glaciers
had been a short time before.
Take off this -glacial layer and
beneath it you find sedimentary
rocks that show ,that 400 million.
years ago there was no landscape
here, only a 'seascape. A shallow
sea covered all of Southern
Ontario and organisms that lived
and build reefs in it have left
behind fossilized forms as their
only memorial, points. out the
University of Guelph scientist,.
Probe beneath the sedimentary
layers. and you. reach dry land
again in the shape of gently
rolling hills and valleys that may
be as much as 800 million years.
old. Prof. Chesworth says we
don't know what it looked like
precisely, but to our eyes it Would
have appeared very bare and
uninviting. There would have beet ,
no trees, no flowers and no grass,
all of which. were still hundreds of
millions. of years into the future.
If you look closely at the rocks
that form this ancient. landscape
you find clues to an even earlier
one in the form of granite, a rock
that originates in the deep core of
mountain chains, and basalt, the
commonest of all volcanic rocks.
They show that more than a
billion years ago Ontario was a
mountainous land with active
volcanoes throwing out streams of
molten lava, And structures in the
rocks show that these mountains
and volcanoes were preceded by
earlier ones going back to two and
a hall' and perhaps even three
billion years ago.
At this point, says the Univer-
sity of Guelph scientist, the
writing becomes unreadable and,
no record can be found of earlier
Ontario landscapes. What did it
look like four billion years ago?
We have ni). direct way . of
knowing, concludes Prof. Ches-
worth, but some geologists have
suggested that it probably re-
sembled the surface of the moon,
pockmarked with craters and
covered in loose rubble, a far cry
from the countryside we know
today.
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