The Arches Provincial Park
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The Arches Provincial Park
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 Natural Arches ( Natural Arches ) |
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| location | Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada | |
| surface | 13 ha | |
| WDPA ID | 65621 | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 7 ′ N , 57 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 1980 | |
| administration | Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation | |
The The Arches Provincial Park is a provincial park in the west of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador belonging island Newfoundland .
location
The 13 hectare provincial park was founded in 1980. It is located on the coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence about 130 km north of Corner Brook and 17 km north of the park boundary of Gros Morne National Park . The Route 430 leads past the provincial park. The next place is Parson's Pond, 10 km south . The provincial park only offers infrastructure for day use (picnic areas, outhouse).
The Arches
The attraction of the provincial park is a rock formation on the beach with several natural rock arches . These were mainly caused by the force of the tides .
About 480 million years ago, large amounts of limestone were eroded from the edge of a continental shelf and deposited on the seabed of what was then an ocean in the form of limestone layers. About 460 million years ago, during a period of continental drift, the collision of the African and North American plates caused the formation of a mountain belt along the eastern edge of what is now North America. The limestone layers were folded, tilted and broken . The limestone slid westward and came above soft shale to a halt.
The rock arches were created over a period of several million years from a combination of glacial forces, erosion by wind and water, and other geological influences. At that time the sea level was even higher and the rock formation was exposed to the forces of the tides. Strong storms continue to gnaw the rocks of the rock formation. In the future, only rock towers or surf pillars will probably remain of the rock formation , like these at Harbor Mille on Fortune Bay north of Marystown .
