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Gallery: Adirondack Geology

Adirondack Geology

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Geological GigaPans from the Adirondacks region of New York State.

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  1. Actually opposite the true Trainwreck cut, this detail illustrates some of the boudins (train cars) floating around in the marble.

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  2. Large panorama of a roadcut near Gouverneur, NY known as "The Trainwreck". There are remarkable boudinage features in this high-grade marble that mark the train cars scattered off the track.

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  3. A detail of the west face of the "Snake" roadcut through marbles of the Adirondack lowlands.

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  4. This is the roadcut facing the more famous "Snake" locality. There are ductile deformation features to be seen in this view as well.

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  5. High resolution view of the ductile deformation features exposed on the east face of a marble roadcut south of Potsdam, New York.

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  6. A detail of the west side of the "Snake" roadcut. Rock hammer for scale.

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  7. The east side of this roadcut through marble in the Adirondack Lowlands exposes beautiful examples of ductile deformation.

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  8. Type locality(?) of the Black River Limestone.

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  9. Uppermost layers of the Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone exposed in the base of this roadcut are overlain by the Theresa Formation.

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  10. This roadcut, near Alexandria Bay, New York, exposes the "Great Unconformity" between the basal Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone and the underlying Precambrian gneisses of the Frontenac Arch. The unconformity is near the base of the roadcut and can be seen to preserve some evidence of paleotopography on the Cambri...

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