EESC 2200x Fieldtrip Guide
Sites
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Roadside outcrops (Morningside Park, near Amsterdam Ave. at Morningside
Ave.).
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Orient yourselves with the compas.
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Look at rock. What kind?
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Identify minerals in rock.
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Note this area is topograhically high.
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Note grooves on smooth-top outcrop near northernmost park entrance. What
made them?
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Ft. Lee Historic Park (Fort Lee, NJ).
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Orient yourselves with compas.
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Is this the same kind of rock as morningside?
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Look across the river
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Where's Morningside?.
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What's between this place and Morningside.
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Where is the cliff?
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Alpine Boat Basin (Henry Hudson Drive, Palisades Interstate Park, Alpine,
NJ).
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What kind of rock on the top of the cliff?
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What kind of rock on the bottom?
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Are the sediments flat-lying? Or is there a dip?
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How big are the grains in the sediment?
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Roadside outcrops (Route 59, west of Route 303).
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Note red color of sandstones. Why?
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Note detrital mica particles.
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Note direction of dip of sediments.
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Monsey Glen Park (Monsey, NY).
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Note the layers of conglomerates within the red sandstones. How big are
the clasts (pebbles, cobbles, or boulders)?
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Note that the layers are rather irregular. Why?
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What about the colglomerate boulders along the path. Are they the
same rock?
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Conglomerates (Route 202 and Old Route 202, Suffern, NY).
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How big are the clasts in the conglomerates (pebbles, cobbles, or boulders)?
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Measure strike and dip of sediments.
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Kakiat Park (Route 202, Suffern, NY).
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What kind of rock is in the stream bed?
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What kind of rock is on the hill side?
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What kind of geological feature separates them?
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Lunch at the Summit of Bear Mountain (Bear Mountain State Park,
NY).
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Note the kind of rock near the base of the mountain.
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What kind of rock is at the summit? Is it different than at the base?
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Why is bear mountain topographically high?
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Look at the surrounding mountains and comment on their shape.
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Where is the Ramapo fault? Can you see where it crosses the Hudson River?
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Find a sandstone boulder at the summit. How did it get there?.
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Silvermine Picnic area (7 Lakes Dr., Harriman St. Park).
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What kinds of rock?
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Find the Mine. What do you look for?
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What was being mined? Use magnet!