Griggs Nature Preserve Research Paper

4335 Hayden Run Rd
Dublin, OH 43017
4335 Hayden Run Rd
Dublin, OH 43017
By: Jenna Navaratnam

By: Jenna Navaratnam

Griggs Nature Preserve
Griggs Nature Preserve

Introduction: For my study location I chose the Griggs Nature Preserve, most notably Hayden Falls Park. The latitude and longitude of which is 40° 04’05. 12’’N and 83°06’30. 32’’W, with an elevation that ranges between 797 to 758 feet. I chose this location because even though I had only been there once before, but still found it intriguing that such a place untouched my man could exist completely surrounded by concrete and shopping centers. While preparing to explore this landscape I asked myself several questions in hopes of picking an interesting landscape. The
The plus side to this was that you could really see the slow shipping away of rock from the waterfall from the down cutting. In figure 10 you will see the falls chiseled surface and the large amount of rock and other run off below it. Figure 10: Hayden Run Falls in late fall/early winter. Appearance of down cutting.
Figure 10: Hayden Run Falls in late fall/early winter. Appearance of down cutting.

The soil analysis of the park was deposited between several different units, 8.2% of the park was Milton silt loam (Mob) with 2 to 6 percent slopes, 15.8% was Milton-Urban land complex (MpB), with 2 to 6 percent slopes, 13.1% was Milton-Urban land complex (MpC) with 6 to 12 percent slopes, 59.2% was Ritchey silt loam (RhD2) with 12 to 18 percent slopes eroded, and 3.6% was water totaling 14.7 acres in AOI. Figure 11: Soil analysis if Griggs Nature Preserve
Figure 11: Soil analysis if Griggs Nature
While observing and analyzing I found several things that had caught my interest and wanted to know more. I know that some of my hypothesis are most likely wrong, like instead of glacial landscaping the park is most likely a gorge, but I learned a lot about applying what we have learned in class to real life and though this was an assignment I catch myself pointing out things that we learned, such as cloud structure and different types of fog. In essence, though I do not know nearly enough to fully analysis a landscape correctly, I have learned a lot throughout this last semester about things that I didn’t even know that I knew nothing about. From fluvial landscapes to the Köppen Climate Classification system, I have gained a great foundation for learning about the earth around me and will use everything that I have learned in class for the rest of my