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  1. www.visitalpena.com › adventures › sinkholesSinkholes - Visit Alpena

    You can find plants growing in the bottom of some sinkholes that are not found anywhere else in the local region. Created when subsurface layers of anhydrite and gypsum dissolve, sinkholes dot the landscape in and around Alpena with the country’s highest concentration of these geologic wonders.

  2. There are 13 sinkholes located at Rockport as a result of the Karst topography of the area. One of the sinkholes is over 100 feet deep and filled with water from an underground aquifer. Search for Devonian Era fossils around the sinkholes or in the abandoned 300-acre limestone quarry located on the property.

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    • Graminoids
    • Forbs
    • Ferns
    • Shrubs
    • Trees
    big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
    blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
    sedges (Carex aurea, C. eburnea, C. flava, C. pensylvanica, C. viridula, and others)
    twig-rush (Cladium mariscoides)
    wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
    jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
    wormwood (Artemisia campestris)
    harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
    lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
    rattlesnake fern (Botrypus virginianus)
    bulblet fern (Cystopteris bulbifera)
    oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
    bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
    sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)
    bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
    gray dogwood (Cornus foemina)
    balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
    sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
    paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
    American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
  4. view map. Michigans karst region is spread across Presque Isle, Alpena and Montmorency counties in the northwest corner of the Lower Peninsula and the heart of it is the Sinkhole Area, a non-motorized, 2,600-acre slice of the Mackinaw State Forest between Onaway and Atlanta.

  5. Sep 13, 2021 · Samples of a microbial mat at the bottom of a 75-foot-deep sinkhole off the north shore of Middle Island, near Rockport State Recreation Area in the waters of Thunder Bay National Marine...

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