Musiclover's+Tale

=The Tale of Jimmy, George, and the Beach=

In a land called Canada, there lived a gigantic glacier named Jimmy. He was a cruel glacier with a heart made of ice. He began moving south, watching for anything coming its way. The glacier’s partner in crime was George the sediment who he had met along the way. Together they performed abrasion on the bedrock underneath them. They scratched it, they scraped it, and they left their trails all over it. They left the bedrock feeling flawed. Meanwhile, the glacier wondered why he only had one friend. Was it because he was a cold glacier? He didn’t want to be that way. The glacier asked the sun to help him have a warmer heart. Just then, the glacier began melting. He was extremely grateful because now he could find other friends.

The sediment, George, went on to be more independent and began its own island. They called it George’s Island. This was great for him, but a part of him felt down because he had lost his one true friend. His left side began slanting down and that’s when he figured that maybe he was also a drumlin, made of till. Once he heard about how vicious the sea was, he tried to stay away, but the waves brutally surrounded and drowned him. That’s when he became a drowned drumlin, although it didn’t stop there. The poor drowned drumlin was now being eroded by the waves and the rain. Those thieves called waves stole the sediment George had been saving up since he was young and they carried it away into the ocean so they could deposit it somewhere else. With George’s sediment, a new beach was created. The rain, part of water erosion, helped the waves by loosening up the soil. There was runoff that was visible and that had began creating rills. Eventually the rills came together to form gullies. Everyone could see how impacted George was by all of this. All his rocks were either polished or cracked, and each day George was getting a little smaller.

The beach was beginning a new chapter of its life, though it wasn’t necessarily a good chapter. The beach was now another target of the waves. Each time the waves hit the beach, some sediment (that was originally George’s) moved down beach. This was called longshore drift. Because of this, a spit, a beach that reaches out into the water in the shape of a finger, was formed. The wind, like the waves, transported the sediment. The erosion by wind picked up grains of sand and when it was deposited, it was called loess.

-written by musiclover6991