The limestones of Noah’s flood?
The best place for you to visit limestones is along Rte. 9W where it passes through the Kingston malls. Almost all the rocks there are limestones. You can see more limestones along Rte. 32, just north of Saugerties.
Posts Tagged 'On the Rocks'
On the Rocks: A dark and stormy night
By the midnight of this awful night the storms had passed, and things had settled down. Where there had been colorful marine meadow, now there was the barren desolation of a fresh 10-inch thick deposit of coarse sediment. Few seafloor creatures were still alive; many had been broken up into a shell hash. As the moon rose over the dark sea floor, the last grains of the finer, lighter sediments were falling out of suspension like a marine dust. The new deposit was settling and compacting under its own weight. It was beginning a long process that would very slowly turn it into limestone. That limestone is still there, exposed along Rte. 9W.
Cliffs and waterfalls in the Catskills
To geologists, there is a simple question. How did these waterfalls, with their hazards, come into existence? Haven’t waterfalls just always been there? Well no they haven’t; they were brought into existence by geological processes. We just have to be observant enough to figure out those processes.
On the Rocks: Where the boys are
Why is it that when a large group of mammoth bones are found, a disproportionate number of them are males?
On the rocks: The Devil’s Tombstone
Make your way to Rte. 214 and head north until you reach Stony Clove Gap. That’s a very sizable boulder at the Devil’s Tombstone Campground in the eastern Catskills.
The glaciers of Overlook — ‘Part Two’
Good hiking weather is coming up soon enough. Maybe you should climb Overlook and see the geology up there for yourself.
How far away is the Devonian?
It’s an important unit of time here in the Catskills.
Alien visitors at a Catskills campsite
Our intrepid local geology columnists examine signs of glaciers at North Lake’s Site 151.
Plants and animals and cobbles in a Bearsville quarry
Two geologists hike up to an old bluestone quarry and find some rare fossils.
Sanford Gifford’s scenic landscapes on view at Cedar Grove
The artists of the Hudson River School captured their landscapes in a way that strikes a chord with all of us. We look at their paintings and our hearts beat as one with theirs.