Virtual Field Trips
Champlain Lookout

Virtual Field Trips

Welcome to the Virtual Geoheritage Field Trip to Canada's National Capital Region

 

To view the field trip from oldest rock formations to youngest, click on the Presentation button. You can also view the sites individually by clicking on the list. To find links to Other Virtual Geology Field Trips across Canada, scroll down.

Tour the National Capital Region

 
We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following groups to create this VFT: 
Carleton University, Department of Earth Sciences
Ottawa-Gatineau Geoheritage Project
Cardinal Creek Community Association
Biodiversity Conservancy International
 
 
Ottawa Building Stone Walking Tour
 
Stromatolites on the Ottawa River

The most spectacular place to view stromatolites can be found less than 100 meters upstream from the interprovincial Champlain Bridge, in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. This 3D model is of a small section at the site and was generated processing 348 images. Thanks for this image from Martin John Smith

Bellwood Boulder

3D image of the “Bellwood Boulder” a glacial erratic found during sewer construction in Old Ottawa South. Local residents petitioned the City of Ottawa to save and it is now located in Windsor Park, behind the bus shelter at the park entrance on Riverdale Avenue. The boulder is composed of ~520 million year old (Cambrian) Nepean Sandstone and was moved approximately 10000 years ago during the most recent glaciation, from it’s original location somewhere northwest of Ottawa to the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood. Thanks for this image from Martin John Smith

 

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