1. Landscape Regions of NYS

2. New York State…
Has a wide variety of landscape regions

3. What is responsible for shaping the landscape of NYS in recent times?
The present landscape of northeastern NYS was created by mountain building processes and eroded by glaciation.
Each landscape region is classified by the type of underlying bedrock.

4. A tour of NYS Landscapes…

5. Glacial Sediments
North Shore, Long Island

6. Large glacial erratic in Smithtown Bay, Long Island

7. Loess
Glacial till
Glacial deposits exposed in beach cliff at Caumsett State Park

8. Central Park

9. Large erratic on roche moutonee bedrock. Also note glacial grooves.

11. Hudson Highlands

12. Bear Mountain Bridge

13. Hudson Highlands - View from Bear Mountain

14. Shawangunk Ridge

15. Silurian conglomerate
Shawangunk Ridge, Appalachian Fold Belt, New York
unconformity
Ordovician
shales
Silurian conglomerate

17. Waterfall over Shawangunk conglomerate on Peters Kill.

18. Catskill Mountains

19. Oneonta Formation sandstone overlying red floodplain shales, Catskill Mts. “The Rip Van Winkle Trail”.

20. Slide Mountain – tallest peak in the Catskills (4180ft)

21. Saratoga Springs

23. Adirondack High Peaks

24. View of high peaks region from top of Whiteface Mt

25. Sharp arete ridges and glacial cirque on Whiteface Mt. (4865 ft.)

26. Mt. Marcy: Highest Peak in NYS (5344 ft.)
44°06'45" N 73°55'24" W

27. Tug Hill Plateau

28. Salmon River Falls, Tug Hill Plateau

29. Pixley Falls State Park

30. Niagara Falls / Niagara Gorge

31. Ontario power station, Niagara Gorge

32. American Falls

33. Horseshoe Falls

34. Letchworth Gorge

35. Genesee River, Letchworth gorge

37. Salt pile, salt mine, near Geneseo, NY.

38. Watkins Glen

39. Taughannock Falls These are the highest falls in NYS
With a 215 foot plunge, this waterfall stands three stories taller than Niagara Falls.

40. Mucrospirifer brachiopods and Phacops rana trilobites).

41. Crinoid columnals