S07.02.024

Name/Title

S07.02.024

Description

The Great Falls of Tinkers Creek at the Bedford Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks near Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Tinkers Creek flows over the hard layer of Berea Sandstone that caps the waterfall, protecting softer layers of rock below. The softer layers beneath include Bedford and Cleveland shales. This area has shale, siltstone and sandstone lithologies. Bedrock is from the Devonian Geologic Period. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Top of waterfall and limestone outcrop. Great Falls of Tinkers Creek at the Bedford Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks.