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The geology of the State of New York is made up of ancient Precambrian crystalline basement rock, forming the Adirondack Mountains and the bedrock of much of the state. These rocks experienced numerous deformations during mountain building events and much of the region was flooded by shallow seas depositing thick sequences of sedimentary rock ...
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A colorized depiction of the Hudson Canyon and the New York Bight area. The New York/New Jersey Bight is the geological identification applied to a roughly triangular indentation, regarded as a bight, along the Atlantic coast of the United States that extends northeasterly from Cape May Inlet in New Jersey to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island.
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"The Geological Evolution of Collins Lake, Scotia, New York, as Revealed From Sub-Bottom Profiles and Sediment Core Analysis". Union College "New York State Geological Association 39th Annual Meeting" (PDF). The New York State Geological Association. May 5–7, 1967. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23
Gore Mountain Garnet, found in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, contains the world's largest garnets. [1] [2] The rock that holds these garnets, garnet amphibolite, is sometimes referred to as 'black ore' or 'dark ore.' [1] [3] This rock formation formed during metamorphism during the Ottawan phase of the Grenvillian orogeny, and extremely high temperatures combined with introduction of ...
Superficial deposits (or surficial deposits [1]) refer to geological deposits typically of Quaternary age (less than 2.6 million years old) for the Earth. These geologically recent unconsolidated sediments may include stream channel and floodplain deposits, beach sands, talus gravels and glacial drift and moraine .
Location of New York in the United States. New York is located in the northeastern United States, in the Mid-Atlantic Census Bureau division. New York covers an area of 54,556 square miles (141,299 km 2) making it the 27th largest state by total area (but 30th by land area). [4]