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Often times, we will use both NY state maps together. Click on the images below to see the full size maps. Use them to fill in the table in your lab. Physical Setting/Earth Science Reference Tables — 2011 Edition 2 Lake Erie Interior Lowlands Appalachian Plateau (Uplands) Generalized Landscape Regions of New York State Grenville Province (Highlands) Lake Ontario Erie-Ontario Lowlands (Plains) Key Allegheny Plateau Interior Lowlands Tug Hill Plateau Major geographic province boundary Landscape region boundary State boundary International boundary St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains The Catskills Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Newark Lowlands Champlain Lowlands Taconic Mountains New England Province (Highlands) Hudson Highlands Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain Miles 0 10 20 30 40 50 0 20 40 60 80 Kilometers N W E S Physical Setting/Earth Science Reference Tables — 2011 Edition 3 HOME Generalized Bedrock Geology of New York State 42° 43° elevation 175 m LAKE ERIE LAKE ONTARIO 79° 78° 77° JAMESTOWN 79° NIAGARA FALLS Niagara River modified from GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 1989 BUFFALO elevation 75 m Genesee River ROCHESTER GEOLOGIC PERIODS AND ERAS IN NEW YORK ELMIRA 44° OSWEGO FINGER LAKES ITHACA 76° SYRACUSE WATERTOWN BINGHAMTON Susquehanna 78° 77° P E N N S Y L V A N I A 76° CRETACEOUS and PLEISTOCENE (Epoch) weakly consolidated to unconsolidated gravels, sands, and clays LATE TRIASSIC and EARLY JURASSIC conglomerates, red sandstones, red shales, basalt, and diabase (Palisades sill) PENNSYLVANIAN and MISSISSIPPIAN conglomerates, sandstones, and shales } } DEVONIAN limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates SILURIAN SILURIAN also contains salt, gypsum, and hematite. ORDOVICIAN CAMBRIAN limestones, shales, sandstones, and dolostones CAMBRIAN and EARLY ORDOVICIAN sandstones and dolostones moderately to intensely metamorphosed east of the Hudson River CAMBRIAN and ORDOVICIAN (undifferentiated) quartzites, dolostones, marbles, and schists intensely metamorphosed; includes portions of the Taconic Sequence and Cortlandt Complex TACONIC SEQUENCE sandstones, shales, and slates slightly to intensely metamorphosed rocks of CAMBRIAN through MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN ages MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC gneisses, quartzites, and marbles Lines are generalized structure trends. MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC anorthositic rocks St. Lawrence River } } } River 75° 74° 45° UTICA MASSENA OLD FORGE Delaware River Dominantly sedimentary origin 75° Dominantly metamorphosed rocks SLIDE MT. MT. MARCY River Mohawk River Hudson KINGSTON NEW JERSEY ALBANY 41° Hudson NEW YORK CITY 74° Intensely metamorphosed rocks (regional metamorphism about 1,000 m.y.a.) River 44° 42° 73°30' 73° 45° PLATTSBURGH LAKE CHAMPLAIN VERMONT 43° MASSACHUSETTS CONNECTICUT LONG ISLAND 73° 41° RIVERHEAD LONG ISLAND SOUND 73° 40°30' 41° 72° ATLANTIC OCEAN Miles Miles N 0 0 10 20 30 40 10 20 30 40 50 50 0 0 20 40 60 20 40 60 80 Kilometers Kilometers W 80 S E
Physical Setting/Earth Science Reference Tables — 2011 Edition 2 Lake Erie BACK TO ESRTs Interior Lowlands Appalachian Plateau (Uplands) Generalized Landscape Regions of New York State Grenville Province (Highlands) Lake Ontario Erie-Ontario Lowlands (Plains) Key Allegheny Plateau Interior Lowlands Tug Hill Plateau Major geographic province boundary Landscape region boundary State boundary International boundary St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains The Catskills Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Newark Lowlands Champlain Lowlands Taconic Mountains New England Province (Highlands) Hudson Highlands Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain Miles 0 10 20 30 40 50 0 20 40 60 80 Kilometers N W E S
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