"The Devil's Punchbowl is one of the Niagara Escarpment's most amazing sights, created at the end of the last ice age by huge streams that plunged over the Stoney Creek Escarpment to carve it out. From the bottom of the falls, you can see the many different coloured layers of stone, sand and fossils that make up the Escarpment in this area. The Punch Bowl is the only area where you can view such a large vertical display of Silurian stratified rock. Some of the layers include Queenston Formation red shale, Cabot Head grey shale, limestone and shale dolomite."