stop no. 1
Installation of glacial erratic boulders: Yvonne Addington, Brian Clopton Excavating and Axis Crane |
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A bronze plaque, interpreting the ice age erratic rock. |
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An artist's rendering of a Harlan’s Ground Sloth. |
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Harlan’s Ground Sloth sacrum and vertebrae on display at the Tualatin Heritage Center. |
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An exhibit featuring the Tualatin Mastodon tusk and molars. |
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The heritage center, located in a former church, houses an impressive collection of Native American artifacts, vintage photographs, and a permanent display about Tualatin's mastodon featuring its tusk and molars. |
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stop no. 2
A nearby water feature at the park's playground. |
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Ki-a-Kuts Pedestrian Bridge, Tualatin Community Park. |
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An artist's rendering of a Harlan's Ground Sloth being attacked. |
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Be on the lookout for the interpretive exhibit on Ice Age sloths! |
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stop no. 3
View the skeleton in person to get an idea of just how large it is! |
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Mastodon interactive play exhibit at the Library. |
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Night view of the Mastodon skeleton at the Tualatin Public Library. |
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Mastodon skeleton, entrance of Tualatin Public Library. |
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stop no. 4
Learn more about Tualatin-area attractions at the kiosk. |
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stop no. 5
Glacial erratics are embedded onsite. |
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Summer concert at The Commons. |
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One of the ArtWalk exhibits at The Commons. |
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Cast glass fountains are inspired by Tualatin’s Ice Age past. |
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Views of the lake near an Ice Age mosaic. |
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stop no. 6
An archaeological team digging for Ice Age clues in Tualatin. |
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An artist's rendering of a mastodon taking a sip of water in an Ice-Age wetland. |
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Mastodon bones embedded in the ground. |
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stop no. 7
The boardwalk offers a view of the Sherwood/Lake Oswego Fault. |
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stop no. 8
Carried by floodwatersâ€"and some catching a ride within icebergsâ€"erratics and gravel were transported hundreds of miles. |
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Imagine the turbulent trip as an erratic trapped in a piece of ice, broken from a glacier hundreds of miles away, and carried along on tsunami sized wave of water as the flood gouges and scours the land â€" It comes to rest here in Tualatin. |
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stop no. 9
These wetlands are in a channel created when Ice Age floodwaters scoured out a flood channel. |
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stop no. 10
Notice how the river bends at this location? That's thanks to a large gravel deposits that force the waters of the Tualatin to take a detour around them. |
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stop no. 11
Located near the Nyberg Rivers Shopping Center, "I Wonder" provides a sense of scale of how large even a juvenile mastodon can be. |
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The bronze sculpture "I Wonder" draws crowds young and old alike. |
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stop no. 12
Mastodon molars, along with other Ice Age megafauna is on display within Cabela's "Ice Cave." |
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