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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 January 1917
GSA Bulletin (1917) 28 (1): 543–552.
...DOUGLAS WILSON JOHNSON Abstract Introduction The student of land forms finds in the White Mountains of New Hampshire exceptional opportunities for pleasant and profitable field excursions. To the advantages afforded by Prof. J. W. Goldthwait s excellent descriptions of the salient topographic...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 April 1989
GSA Bulletin (1989) 101 (4): 561–572.
...SPAFFORD C. ACKERLY Abstract Ice surface profiles are reconstructed for 37 proposed mountain glacier localities in the northeastern United States, including sites in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, New York; the Green Mountains, Vermont; the White Mountains, New Hampshire; and the Longfellow...
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Major alpine environments of northeastern North America used in this study:...
Published: 06 April 2016
Fig. 2. Major alpine environments of northeastern North America used in this study: 1, Catskills; 2, Adirondack Mountains; 3, Green Mountains; 4, White Mountains; 5, Mount Katahdin; 6, Cape Breton Highlands; 7, Charlevoix Highlands; 8, Chic-Chocs and McGerrigle Mountains; 9, Long Range.
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 December 1977
GSA Bulletin (1977) 88 (12): 1697–1710.
... gradients, which are comparable to those of active, steady-state, temperate glaciers. Ice-slope considerations and topography suggest correlation of the Cassville-Cooperstown ice border with the Wagon Wheel Gap Substage in the Catskill Mountains. Mapping the Cassville-Cooperstown moraine makes possible...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 July 1957
AAPG Bulletin (1957) 41 (7): 1429–1440.
... they cross the “little” folded mountains of the familiar Catskill-Kingston region; these small folds are entirely of Acadian age. In following this easterly trend, the terminal Paleozoic folds converge toward and cross structural patterns produced by the Taconic and Acadian orogenies and are themselves...
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Journal Article
Published: 06 April 2016
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2016) 53 (5): 494–505.
...Fig. 2. Major alpine environments of northeastern North America used in this study: 1, Catskills; 2, Adirondack Mountains; 3, Green Mountains; 4, White Mountains; 5, Mount Katahdin; 6, Cape Breton Highlands; 7, Charlevoix Highlands; 8, Chic-Chocs and McGerrigle Mountains; 9, Long Range. ...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2006
Earth Sciences History (2006) 25 (2): 225–238.
... there, was appointed State (Chief) Geologist of the northern Geological District of the New York State Geological Survey in 1836. He named the Adirondack Mountains (1838), and the Taconic Mountains (1844, 1846) and acquainted the public with these regions. Emmons had noted the presence of a group of rocks between...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 March 2001
Journal of Sedimentary Research (2001) 71 (2): 305–317.
... with derivation from North American Archean terranes. No zircon from either unit (or reported in the literature) can be interpreted as recording an Ordovician (Taconian) age. Devonian Catskill "redbeds" represent synorogenic to postorogenic foreland sedimentation associated with the Acadian orogeny (ca. 400-360...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 March 2000
The Journal of Geology (2000) 108 (2): 155–169.
...Mary K. Roden-Tice; Steven J. Tice; Ian S. Schofield Abstract Apatite fission-track ages of 168–83 Ma for 39 samples of Proterozoic crystalline rocks, three samples of Cambrian Potsdam sandstone, and one Cretaceous lamprophyre dike from the Adirondack Mountains in New York State indicate...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 December 1950
AAPG Bulletin (1950) 34 (12): 2269–2283.
..., analogous to Catskill of Devonian. Red and greenish sandstones below becoming dominantly red shale above, barren.................... 2,300   Shawangunk gray sandstone and conglomerate, orthoquartzite, some black shale lenses, possibly all marine, but fossils few. Forms Kittatinny Mountain in New Jersey...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 November 2009
The Journal of Geology (2009) 117 (6): 595–614.
... and the rifting of the Iapetus Ocean. In New York State, the Potsdam Formation is the basal unit of the Paleozoic cover strata that sit unconformably above the Grenville basement (ca. 1100 Ma), and this contact is well exposed around the Adirondack Mountains. The depositional age of the Potsdam Formation...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 March 2011
GSA Bulletin (2011) 123 (3-4): 412–426.
...Joshua P. Taylor; Paul G. Fitzgerald Abstract The Adirondack Mountains in northern New York State form an elongate, domal exposure of mainly high-grade metamorphic tectonites in a mountainous setting with topographic relief of ∼1 km. The origin of the Adirondack Mountains and this relief has long...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 August 1977
AAPG Bulletin (1977) 61 (8): 1328–1334.
... in western and central New York during 1976. Gulf carried out a lease play in the southern Catskill Mountains in the fall of 1976 and is said to have leased about 50,000 acres in the area. The present undeveloped acreage under lease is estimated at 4 million acres. One state tract was leased by competitive...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 August 1948
AAPG Bulletin (1948) 32 (8): 1493–1595.
... exposed in New York in the Adirondack Mountains, and are found in limited areas in the southern part of the Hudson River Valley. In Pennsylvania and Maryland, pre-Cambrian terranes are exposed: first, in the Reading Prong and Honeybrook Upland, north and south, respectively, of the Triassic Lowland...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 January 2010
The Journal of Geology (2010) 118 (1): 23–44.
... and Ortega-Gutierrez 1999 ). In modern North America, the Grenville-age province comprises the eastern margin of Laurentia extending from Newfoundland to Texas and central Mexico ( fig. 3 ; Mezger et al. 1993 ). Based on magmatic and deformational events near the Adirondack Mountains in the northern...
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Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 October 1957
AAPG Bulletin (1957) 41 (10): 2312–2327.
... into the presently unmetamorphosed portion of the region. Nonetheless, the famous “little folds” of the Kingston-Catskill region of New York are certainly of Acadian age, for they involve no beds higher than early Hamilton, while the main or so-called” Appalachian” folds in the high Catskill Mountains can...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 14 December 2022
GSA Bulletin (2023) 135 (7-8): 2075–2087.
... at the LGM and were likely exposed before 18 ka ( Bierman et al., 2015 ; Corbett et al., 2019 ; Koester et al., 2020 ). A dipstick constructed in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York, USA ( Barth et al., 2019 ) relies on whole rock 36 Cl exposure ages. The 36 Cl ages suggest slow initial...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2004
Earth Sciences History (2004) 23 (2): 171–173.
... in the beautiful setting of Troy, New York, in the foothills of the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. The program will include a field trip by boat on the Hudson River to experience the ambience of upstate New York and history of geology field trips to the sites of founders of American geology. We extend...
Journal Article
Published: 01 September 2005
The Journal of Geology (2005) 113 (5): 535–552.
...Mary K. Roden-Tice; Steven J. Tice Abstract Apatite fission-track (AFT) ages of 178 to 70 Ma for 108 samples from the Adirondack Mountains and eastern New York State, Vermont, western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and western New Hampshire indicate that widespread unroofing occurred throughout...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 July 2007
GSA Bulletin (2007) 119 (7-8): 796–804.
... follow our application of calcite-twinning analysis to curvature in the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain ( Kollmeier et al., 2000 ). Figure 3. (Top) A calcite grain with a single e-twin and the compressive (C) and tensile (T) stress axes oriented most favorably to produce twinning (oriented...
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