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photo by Michigan Department of Conservation 



PLATE 2.— FALLS OF TAHQUAMENON RIVER 



LARGEST FALLS WEST OF NIAGARA 300 FEET WIDE, FALLING OVER A 



LEDGE OF CAMBRIAN SANDSTONE. 



into Lake Superior or reach the lake in cascading beauty of 

 misty falls over the fortressed cliffs. The tranquil 300-feet- 

 wide Tahquamenon River falls in majestic grandeur over 

 ledges of red-brown sandstone at the Upper Falls, rushes 

 through a gorge it has cut in the rock to the ledges of the 

 Lower Falls, and then winds again tranquilly on to the lake. 

 Other streams have cut short gorges in the sandstone, but the 

 positions of their falls near the lake are maintained and de- 

 struction of the falls is prevented by the layer of resistant 

 Hermansville (Ozarkian) limestone, which is the rim of the 

 next inner rock bowl. 



Above and within the white, sandy Ozarkian dolomites and 

 limestones were deposited the lime muds which became the 

 hard, resistant limestones of the early Ordovician — the Black 



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