Explore Everywhere Podcast
Your window to Outdoor Adventure. Join us as we explore hiking trails and paddling routes in New Brunswick, PEI (Prince Edward Island), Maine, Nova Scotia, and sometimes the rest of the world. Learn about the trails and routes, and meet the people who love and protect them.
Explore Everywhere Podcast
Episode 16: Trail Geology with Toon Pronk
August 13, 2020
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James Donald
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Season 1
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Episode 16
In this episode I do my first interview. I hike to the top of Currie Mountain near Fredericton and talk to Toon Pronk about the geology across the province and how it relates to hiking trails.
Types of rock we discussed
- Basalts
- Gabro
- Felsic magma, rhyolite
- Feldspars
- Sedimentary
Types of landscape features we discussed
- Drumlins
- Moraines
- Esker
- Delta
- Caldera
- Accretionary terrain
- Tectonic plates
Products mentioned
Trails mentioned
- Currie Mountain
- Walton Glen Gorge
- Grand Manan Island
- Flock of Sheep Trail (Grand Manan)
- Turtle Mountain
- Spednic Lake
- Killarney Lake
- Dragons Tooth on the Fundy Footpath (Seely Beach to Big Salmon River Section)
- Martin Head
- Chimney Rock
- Mount Sagamook
- Mount Carleton
- Fundy Trail Parkway
- Pangburn Beach (Fundy Trail Parkway)
- Kouchibouguac National Park
- Odell Park (Ledges on the Arboretum Woods Trail)
- Odell Park (Botatnical garden around the pond on the Arboretum Field Trail)
- Moss Glen Nature Trail
- Sussex Bluffs
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