Fossils of the Catskill Sea
Illustrations from a nineteenth-century geology textbook show typical marine shellfish fossils of Devonian age, a time period running from 419 ...
Tag: On the Rocks
On the Rocks: The black shales of Noah’s flood
You can see good black shales on Glasco Turnpike near Mt. Marion. Other black shale strata are seen along Route ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The New Kaaterskill Falls trail Part Six: Beyond the falls
Now we are ready to continue on toward Kaaterskill Clove itself. It used to be that the trail up the ...
The New Kaaterskill Falls trail – Part 5: The Top of the Falls
We stand at the top of the falls and look down to see a glacier filling the valley below us; ...
The New Kaaterskill Falls trail – Part Four: The Side Trail
Perhaps the best thing about the new renovations at Kaaterskill Falls is the new side path.
On the Rocks: The New Kaaterskill Falls trail, Part Two
We have begun a series of columns about the newly renovated trail leading up to Kaaterskill Falls. We want you ...
On the Rocks: The new Kaaterskill Falls trail
The DEC last year set about on a plan to completely revamp the whole trail system in the Kaaterskill Falls ...
On The Rocks: Cave-in at Rosendale
Mt. Joppenbergh (photo by Johanna Titus) We are going to visit the site of the Rosendale Trestle again this week. ...
On the rocks: The Rosendale Trestle
Rosendale canyon (photo by Johanna Titus) Have you been down to the newly restored trestle at Rosendale? It’s just another ...
On the rocks: The new Kaaterskill Falls Overlook
(Photo by Johanna Titus) It was nearly 20 years ago that On the Rocks first editorialized for extensive trail renovations ...
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