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The East Rock trap rock ridge overlooking New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Trap rock forming a characteristic pavement, Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland Trap rock cliff overlooking the Hudson River from an overlook on the Hudson Palisades in Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S. Trap rock forming a characteristic stockade wall, Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
The Catskill Escarpment, often referred to locally as just the Escarpment or the Great Wall of Manitou, [1] and known as the Catskill Front to geologists, is the range forming the northeastern corner of the Catskill Mountains in Greene and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York.
Work was begun in the area near Highland Lake (renamed Hessian Lake) and in January 1909, the state purchased the 740-acre (3.0 km 2) Bear Mountain tract. Conservationists, inspired by the work of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, lobbied successfully for the creation of the Highlands of the Hudson Forest Preserve. However, the prison ...
The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolomites of Devonian age that forms geographic features in some areas in which it outcrops; in others, especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as a local surface feature.
Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York.It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820).
Reconstruction of building remains found at Biskupin, Poland. from circa 738 B.C. Bulhus Gotland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Post-and-plank . The method of building wooden buildings with a traditional timber frame with horizontal plank or log infill has many names, the most common of which are piece sur piece (French.
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The Palisades Sill as seen from the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The Hudson River is the background. The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion. It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey. It is most noteworthy for The Palisades, the cliffs that rise steeply above the western bank of the Hudson River.