The Giants Rib - Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve
Did you ever wonder where the Niagara Escarpment (a.k.a The Giant's Rib) came from? This video tells the story of the Giant's Rib, it's wondrous features and why it is designated as a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. View magnificent footage of the Escarpment, its wildlife, and learn about the Giant's Rib Discovery Centre and what we have to offer.
The Niagara Escarpment Hamilton Ontario Canada
The Niagara Escarpment and the Bruce Trail during Fall in Hamilton, Ontario.
Exploring the Niagara Escarpment
Stunningly beautiful footage taken of the Niagara Escarpment.
Bruce Trail Hike, Beamer Falls, Niagara Escarpment, Grimsby Ontario Canada
Northern Door County's Niagara Escarpment
Door County TODAY host Paul Regnier explores the Niagara Escarpment, the massive natural attribute that gives Door County's shoreline much of its magnificence, having created the bluffs, overlooks, views, and prospects that awes our visitors.
WN@TL - Wisconsin’s Niagara Escarpment. Donald Mikulic. 2019.02.20
This week (February 20) Don Mikulic, retired from the Illinois State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will help us explore the over-arching impacts of the Niagara Escarpment that starts near its namesake falls and curves over through Ontario and Lake Huron and skirts along the southern U.P. and then through the Door Peninsula and into eastern Wisconsin.
Here’s how he describes his talk, entitled “Wisconsin’s Niagara Escarpment: The Continuing Impact of 430 Million-Year-Old Silurian Rocks on the State’s Development, Economy, and Scientific Heritage”:
Geology has a strong influence where and how our society develops. Few people, however, are aware of the importance of this connection. In eastern Wisconsin, the Niagara Escarpment provides a noteworthy example of this cause and effect. From defining the shape of the Great Lakes to making a home for the Green Bay Packers, the escarpment has been instrumental in the direction of eastern Wisconsin’s historical and economic development and more recently its geotourism.
The Silurian rocks of this region of which the escarpment is a part, continue to play a role in this development in addition to having been the basis of important scientific discoveries. First in the 19th Century documentation of ancient reefs by former state geologists and a UW President, on to more recent studies on the geologic record of glacially driven extinction events, these Silurian rocks have had an important role in studying the geologic past.
About the Speaker
Donald Mikulic is specialist on the geology and paleontology of Silurian rocks especially in the Milwaukee-Chicago area and on Wisconsin mining history. He has conducted research projects in North America and Europe and has worked as a curator at the Greene Museum at UW-Milwaukee, as a consultant for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and for the Wisconsin Department of Justice. He is a steering committee member of the Niagara Escarpment Resource Network.
Mikulic grew up in Muskego, earned his bachelor’s in geology at UW-Milwaukee and his PhD in geology at Oregon State University. He retired as senior paleontologist from the Illinois State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is affiliated with the Weis Earth Science Museum, at the Fox Valley Campus of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Bruce Trail Hike, Beamer Conservation Area, Niagara Escarpment, Grimsby Ontario Canada
Ontario's Niagara Escarpment
Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment invites you to discover our Niagara Escarpment. Get to know it. Learn to love it. Decide to protect it. - created at
Niagara Escarpment Hogg's Falls Summer, Flesherton Canada
Ontario's Boyne River plunges 6 metres over dolostone to form a 10 metre curtain waterfall. A popular stop for Bruce Trail hikers, this video presents scenic waterfall and river landscapes and close-ups, accompanied by Celtic violin.
Niagara Escarpment, near Jordan, Ontario - DJI Phantom 3
It was such a beautiful Saturday, I had to get out there.
Took this on my friends property near Jordan in the Niagara Region (just west of St. Catharines) near the escarpment.
Niagara Escarpment Life
This video is about life along the Niagara Escarpment and what some people are doing to protect it. Join us April 21, 2018
Niagara Escarpment
This video discusses the relationship of the Niagara Escarpment and the Michigan Basin with regard to an extraterrestrial impact in the Saginaw Bay region. The energy transfer of an impact on a layered target is illustrated.
Related video: Chris Cottrell's Carolina Bays and The Michigan Basin
Thanks to Robert Kocher for calling my attention to the Niagara Escarpment.
Niagara Escarpment Fun
2009-Jan-18 // Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada
Sledding or Tobogganing down the Niagara Escarpment.
Caves beneath the Bruce Peninsula (Niagara Escarpment - Canada)
There are caves of different types all along the Niagara Escarpment. This is a short video that features some of the caves beneath the Bruce Peninsula, an amazing dolostone tongue of land in Canada that juts up into the turquoise waters of Georgian Bay.
The Niagara Escarpment: The Giant's Rib
Learn about the fossils, living creatures and natural beauty of Ontario's Niagara Escarpment, part of Ontario's Greenbelt.
To learn more about Ontario’s greenbelt visit
For fresh air, clean water, healthy local food, and a thriving economy with good jobs Ontario’s Greenbelt is the solution. At almost 2 million acres, it’s the world’s largest permanently protected greenbelt, keeping our farmlands, forests, and wetlands safe and sustainable.The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation works to help keep farmers successful, strengthen local economies, and protect and grow natural features.
Niagara Escarpment Websters Falls, Hamilton Ontario
Plunging twenty-two metres over the Niagara Escarpment, Spencer Creek creates a beautiful curtain falls above Dundas Ontario, Canada. In addition to the scenic falls, the associated park (Hamilton Conservation Authority), also provides vistas of the Dundas Valley adjacent to the west coast of Lake Ontario. This slideshow features images of the park's cobblestone footbridge spanning Spencer Creek, and the falls themselves, both above and within the plunge basin, accompanied by the contemporary instrumental composition Road to Hanna performed by Shadowfax. Quotes by Dante and Henry Miller provide philosophical bookends for this photographic study in contrasts.
Niagara Escarpment Devil's Punch Bowl Falls, Hamilton Canada
Stoney Creek plunges over the Niagara Escarpment, forming a 34 metre upper ribbon falls and 5 m lower classical falls. The lower falls measure 6 metres across. Glacial meltwaters ending 13 millennia ago eroded the gorge. The gorge exposes 450 million years' strata, from red Queenston shale to Silurian sandstone and dolostone above.
Niagara Escarpment Borer's Falls, Dundas Canada
Borer's Creek plunges 15 metres (49 ft) to form Borer's Falls, a ribbon plunge waterfall with an 5 metre (16 ft) crest. The creek powered the Borer family sawmill for a century until its flow diminished with the forest.
Burlington to Niagara Falls - Rural Ontario Bike Tour - Day 1 of 9
This video summarizes day 1 of my 9 day solo bicycle trip through South-Western Ontario, Canada. All of the clips in the video were filmed on Saturday, May 19, 2018.
Starting in Downtown Toronto I rode to Union Station where I then caught a GO Train to Burlington. From there I joined the Waterfront Trail and followed in through Hamilton and Grimsby before heading south to pass through the Niagara Region's farmland. I then passed through Lincoln, Vineland, and Jordan, before reaching the City of St Catherines. I climbed up the Niagara Escarpment through the City of Thorold, and passed under the Welland Canal via the Thorold Tunnel which I really enjoyed! From there I followed country roads until I reach the Niagara Falls KOA on Lundys Lane which was my campground for the night.
Strava for Day 1:
The bike I used for this trip is a New York made Linear Recumbent Bike which I believe is from around 2004. I carried my gear in 2 Giant Waterproof Panniers, and mounted my tent and sleeping pad on the top of the rack.
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Traveling Along Niagara Escarpment - On The Way To Beautiful Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
The Niagara Escarpment is the most prominent of several escarpments formed in the bedrock of the Great Lakes. It is recognized as one of the world's unique natural wonders and is the most prominent topographical feature of southern Ontario. When you are in the Owen Sound visit Mill Dam, where Ontario's first fish ladder was constructed by the North Grey Region Conservation Authority in 1959.. In April and May you can watch rainbow trout migrate upstream, and from August to October you can watch Chinook salmon migration. Don't forget to visit Wiarton, hometown of Canadian weather groundhog Willie. Visit for more info...