These photos are from mid March not long after the first real warm up of the year. The location is on Lake Michigan in Port Washington WI where there is a nice long beach with easy access. This one of the places that I visit to look for interesting rocks and fossils and there are plenty. Its a nice beach with quartz type sand and some spots with swaths of black sand layers possibly magnetite sand? The bluff is constantly eroding and collapsing bringing down with it lots of new glacial til rocks, trees, shrubs and the occasional set of wooden steps that go up to some of the private residences. The water is extremely clear and at times it looks like the Caribbean with amazing blue and turquoise colors. Its not uncommon to see several other people collecting and metal detecting. So anyway here are some of photos of what you see here. Thx.
The first couple of images shows the large Dolostone boulders that they brought in as rip rap that is in front of a water treatment facility's path (the easier of two ways to get to the beach).
rock in the sand with yellow/orange oxide draining
Typical selection of beach rocks
If you zoom in you can see sand details
fossiliferous limestone
Shallow water view
Looking up at the bluff from the beach, you can see the water draining at the base, large clumps of mud/clay break off and eventually it get's sucked into the lake by waves.
Red rock with quartz (football size)
banded quartz sandstone
Another bluff shot, you can see the the rocks funneling down the channel that will end up on the beach to get cleaned by the lakes waves.
Interesting boulder, either a granitoid or syenite has a section of fine grain on it to go with the coarser main body.
This is where I turned around, all the snow and ice is now long gone.
The first couple of images shows the large Dolostone boulders that they brought in as rip rap that is in front of a water treatment facility's path (the easier of two ways to get to the beach).
rock in the sand with yellow/orange oxide draining
Typical selection of beach rocks
If you zoom in you can see sand details
fossiliferous limestone
Shallow water view
Looking up at the bluff from the beach, you can see the water draining at the base, large clumps of mud/clay break off and eventually it get's sucked into the lake by waves.
Red rock with quartz (football size)
banded quartz sandstone
Another bluff shot, you can see the the rocks funneling down the channel that will end up on the beach to get cleaned by the lakes waves.
Interesting boulder, either a granitoid or syenite has a section of fine grain on it to go with the coarser main body.
This is where I turned around, all the snow and ice is now long gone.
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