Tag: On the Rocks

Illustrations from a nineteenth-century geology textbook show typical marine shellfish fossils of Devonian age, a time period running from 419 ...

You can see good black shales on Glasco Turnpike near Mt. Marion. Other black shale strata are seen along Route ...

The best place for you to visit limestones is along Rte. 9W where it passes through the Kingston malls. Almost ...

By the midnight of this awful night the storms had passed, and things had settled down. Where there had been ...

To geologists, there is a simple question. How did these waterfalls, with their hazards, come into existence? Haven’t waterfalls just ...

Why is it that when a large group of mammoth bones are found, a disproportionate number of them are males?

Make your way to Rte. 214 and head north until you reach Stony Clove Gap. That’s a very sizable boulder ...

Good hiking weather is coming up soon enough. Maybe you should climb Overlook and see the geology up there for ...

It’s an important unit of time here in the Catskills.

Our intrepid local geology columnists examine signs of glaciers at North Lake’s Site 151.

Two geologists hike up to an old bluestone quarry and find some rare fossils.

The artists of the Hudson River School captured their landscapes in a way that strikes a chord with all of ...

Now we are ready to continue on toward Kaaterskill Clove itself. It used to be that the trail up the ...

We stand at the top of the falls and look down to see a glacier filling the valley below us; ...

Perhaps the best thing about the new renovations at Kaaterskill Falls is the new side path.

We have begun a series of columns about the newly renovated trail leading up to Kaaterskill Falls. We want you ...

The DEC last year set about on a plan to completely revamp the whole trail system in the Kaaterskill Falls ...

Mt. Joppenbergh (photo by Johanna Titus) We are going to visit the site of the Rosendale Trestle again this week. ...

Rosendale canyon (photo by Johanna Titus) Have you been down to the newly restored trestle at Rosendale? It’s just another ...

(Photo by Johanna Titus) It was nearly 20 years ago that On the Rocks first editorialized for extensive trail renovations ...