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1 The Rocks of Harriman State Park Talk with the Experts American Canoe Association Bill Menke Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University July 23, 2016

2 Part 1 Everything Changes

3 Very Old

4 Great Pyramid at Giza roughly 5000 years old

5 1 pyramid 5000 years

6 Imagine what Harriman State Park was like 4 Pyramids Ago? (20,000 years)

7 Whitetail Deer

8 Whitetail Deer

9 Greenland Ice Sheet

10 Absolutely nothing lived in the Harriman Park 20,000 years ago

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12 Harriman State Park

13 Twenty Thousand Years not all that long ago

14 200 pyramids = One Million Years

15 One Million Years

16 Death of the Dinosaurs 65 Million Years ago 65 boxes of 200 pyramids

17 Part 2 Rocks tell a Story

18 but an incomplete story

19 Erosion destroys rocks but also brings them to the Earth s surface

20 Erosion destroys rocks Bad for Geologists but also brings them to the Earth s surface Good for Geologists

21 2 inches in 20,000 years 40,000 inches in 400 Million Years

22 2 inches in 20,000 years 100,000 inches in 1000 Million Years About a mile and a half!

23 How can you erode a half mile off the land without it being underwater?

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29 Part 3 The Age of Bacteria (and not much else) 1000 million years ago

30 Era when most of Harriman Park rocks were formed Two major rock types

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32 Gneiss

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34 Granite

35 Gneiss A Metamorphic Rock Banded Brown or Grey in Color Layers of sand and clay Deeply buried and cooked (metamorphosed) by heat and pressure Granite An Igneous Rock No bands White or beige in Color Solidified molten rock Very hard to erode so tends to form hilltops (Bear Mountain, Popolopen Torne, etc)

36 Originally layers of sand and clay. Formed at surface of earth Gneiss Might there have been living things?

37 Graphite (pure carbon) all that s left of life

38 Gneiss

39 Gneiss Folds

40 solid rock. acting like dough

41 Needs to be deeply buried say 5 miles to get hot enough to be metamorphosed and folded Gneiss when was it buried?

42 Granite An Igneous Rock Very hot conditions think volcano Which is older? Gneiss, or Granite?

43 Claudius Smith Den

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47 Granite Geological Logic The granite cuts the gneiss so the gneiss is the older Gneiss furthermore the fold were already formed when the granite was emplaced so the gneiss was already deep underground before the granite was formed

48 Geologists have been able to determine the age of the granite about 1000 million years so the sediments that formed the gneiss are older than that

49 Part 4 The Age of Dinosaurs (and many other animals) 200 Million years ago

50 Aerial view of Harriman State Park

51 Lake Tiorati Lake Welch Stony Point Tuxedo Park ACA Pomona Sloatsburg

52 do you see the lines? of hills and valleys?

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54 Lines are Geological Faults

55 Right-most is the Ramapo Fault

56 With some effort you can work out the direction the land moved

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60 Slickenslides grooves from fault motion

61 When was the faulting?

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63 Boulders in sandstone

64 rock debris coming out of a steep stream valley into a low lying area

65 look what else you find in the sandstones

66 so the faulting looks to have occurred during the age of the dinosaurs 200 million years ago

67 so the faulting looks to have occurred during the age of the dinosaurs 200 million years ago

68 Part 5 The Ice Age which ended 20,000 years ago

69 Glacier in Iceland

70 Glacial scratches

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76 Boulder carried by glacier Erratic Boulders

77 Harriman State Park

78 Do you recognize this rock?

79 Bearford Mountain

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81 Fort Lee Historic Little Park Tor

82 Looks like granite from Harriman park Fort Lee Historic Little Park Tor

83 Harriman Park as Fort seen Lee from Historic Little Park Tor

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85 Steep downstream slope Glacially Plucked Cliff

86 Steep downstream slope Glacier in Iceland

87 Claudius Smith Den

88 Pine Meadow Lake

89 The Kitchen Stairs

90 So when you walk around the Park Listen to the Story told by the Rocks!

91 and great talking with you!

92 Addendum There s gold in them there hills!

93 Addendum There s gold in them there hills! iron

94 Southfield Iron Furnace

95 Carbon Dioxide Iron Ore Limestone Charcoal fill up the furnace Set it afire! Molten Slag Molten Iron

96 Hudson River Chain, Revoutionary War

97 Magnetite (Iron Ore)

98 The magnetite occurs in small veins usually near the granites geologists are not sure why it formed

99 Slag (waste product of refining process)

100 Tailings Pile of Black Ash Mine

101 Black Ash Mine

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