Cucumber Falls

On Monday October 28 2002, My Geology Science Class made a field trip to Cucumber Falls also known as Cucumber Run or Cucumber Ravine is a tributary of Youghiogheny River about 3/4 mile downriver from Ohiopyle Falls in Southwestern Pennsylvania, to learn first hand about the rocks and the stream in the area. I have learnt that this region of Pennsylvania has a lot of igneous metaphoric limestone rock and sandstone rock. The stream is perennial, meaning it …

…by erosion and pushed down stream, these boulders also cause further erosion, when they are pushed by high water and slam into other boulders and the banks of the stream, at times changing the course of the streams flow. The more the rocks crack, the more erosion takes place as new areas of rocks are exposed to erosion. It would be interesting to return to the same spot 100 years from now to see the changes.