![]() ![]() He was assisted by Dartmouth collaborators who used a drone to do aerial surveys. Maclay, who is studying soil and rock samples from the mountain, created an online interactive 3D model of the Old Man as it was. A research project led by Dartmouth College graduate student Matthew Maclay estimates it was 750 cubic meters - “more volume than five school buses,” he said. Today, there's a better sense of the volume and mass of rock that was lost when the Old Man fell from Cannon Mountain. Geologists believe it formed sometime after the end of the Ice Age, perhaps as long as 12,000 years ago. ![]() ![]() It's not clear how old it was New Hampshire historical records mention it as early as 1805. The Old Man was created by a series of geological events going back millions of years. “This landmark was a great loss, he was New Hampshire's greatest boss,” began a poem by one girl who read it during the ceremony. ![]()
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