The Bounty of Bell Smith Springs, Part 10: Room with a View, Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, USA

As promised, here we are, actually Inside one of the canyon's rock shelters excavated by natural undermining and stoping (see Part 9 of this series for an explanation of the mechanics of that).

If you take a good look at the ceiling of the Pennsylvanian-subperiod (Upper Carboniferous) Pounds Sandstone Member, you'll see some significant cracking. And there are also some fairly tabular chunks of rocks that might not need a lot of encouragement to come tumbling down.

In fact, standing inside a rock shelter can give one that creepy, sword-of-Damocles feeling. And of course there are those big, tilted slump blocks on the ground nearby. When they came down, there must have been quite a thump.

Still, if you're at Bell Smith in the early spring when sunlit water droplets are spilling like a string of diamonds over a ledge nearby, you're overtaken—to crib from Keats—with a sense of silence and slow time.

For more on this beautiful and geologically fascinating locale, get a copy of my Geology Underfoot in Illinois.

And to see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit my Natural History: Illinois album.

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Watkins Ford (show map)

Taken on: April 1, 1997

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