I can't imagine how a process like that could ever get started. A tiny rock somehow
defies a river and gets stuck in a dimple, moves in a circle, and wears away a
granite river bed, and then a bigger rock, and on up? You're kidding me?
I don't doubt rocks will get stuck in an existing hole though, and likely enlarge it.
You'd have to see some of the contortions and shapes of the rock along the Sooke river
and all the creeks leading into it as it climbs up between the hills, to appreciate the
energetic implications.
The potholes at the beach locations have vertical sides, and at the bottom and on
the sides there is all kinds of delicate life, even though they have tides crashing
over them. Not much abrasion going on there either.
I feel fairly certain now that this area underwent a dramatic transformation at the end
of the last ice age, and the hills and mountains, and rivers and creeks, the often
melted looking formations and vitrified peaks and outcrops, the pieces all fit.
That makes me wonder then about the whole of the western mountain chain. One event,
or the accumulation from cyclic events, naturally attracted to the higher ground?
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -Buckminster Fuller
