Rockhounding New York
by Robert Beard
Rockhounding New York
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| Acknowledgments |
ix
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| Introduction |
1
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| Rockhounding Basics |
4
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| New York Geology |
10
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| New York Natural Resources |
14
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| How to Use This Guide |
17
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| Map Legend |
20
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| Atlantic Coastal Plain | |
| 1. Orient Point Beach Quartz Pebbles |
21
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| 2. Rocky Point Beach Quartz Pebbles |
24
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| 3. Lloyd Neck Cliffs Indian Paint Pots |
26
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| Manhattan Prong | |
| 4. Staten Island Ferry Serpentine and Gneiss |
29
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| 5. Staten Island Todt Hill Serpentine |
33
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| 6. Inwood Park Shoreline Rocks |
36
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| 7. Valhalla - Kensico Dam Quarry Orange Gneiss |
39
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| Hudson Highlands | |
| 8. Hogencamp Iron Mine |
42
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| 9. Hasenclever Iron Mine |
45
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| 10. Bear Mountain Highway 6 Minerals |
47
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| 11. Hudson Railroad Cut Calcite |
50
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| 12. Philips Mine Sulfides |
52
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| 13. Mount Taurus Quarry |
54
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| 14. Amity - Pine Island Calcite |
56
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| Taconic Mountains | |
| 15. Millerton Iron Mine Pond Blue Slag |
59
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| 16. Weed Mines Limonite and Hematite |
62
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| 17. Souty Bay Roadside Quarry Ripple Marks |
64
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| 18. Pulpit Point Road Graphite Boulders |
67
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| Hudson - Mohawk Lowlands | |
| 19. Highland Mills Fossils |
69
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| 20. Wurtsboro Lead Mines |
72
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| 21. Ellenville Pyrite and Quartz |
75
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| 22. Kingston Highway 32 Calcite Crystals |
77
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| 23. Kingston Highway 209 Fossils |
80
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| 24. Catskill Highway 23 Taconic Unconformity |
82
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| 25. Stark's Knob Pillow Basalts and Pyrite |
84
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| 26. Lester Park Stromatolites |
87
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| 27. Canajoharie Creek Fossils |
89
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| 28. Diamond Acres Herkimer Diamonds |
92
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| 29. Crystal Grove Herkimer Diamonds |
95
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| 30. Herkimer Diamond Mines |
97
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| 31. Ace of Diamonds Mine |
101
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| 32. Newville Nowadaga Creek Graptolites and Trilobites |
103
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| 33. Ilion Jerusalem Hill road Orange Travertine |
105
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| 34. Forge Hollow Travertine |
107
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| Adirondack Mountains | |
| 35. Batchellerville Pegmatites |
109
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| 36. Barton Mines Garnet |
112
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| 37. Hooper Mine Garnets |
115
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| 38. Speculator Highway 30 Diopside and Garnet |
117
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| 39. Brant Lake Roadcut Quartz Crystals |
119
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| 40. Rock Pond Mine Sulfides |
122
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| 41. Ironville Blue and Green Slag |
124
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| 42. Schroon Lake roadcut Minerals |
127
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| 43. Minerva Railroad Cut Light Blue Calcite |
129
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| 44. Tahawus Mine Titaniferous Magnetite |
131
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| 45. Blue Ridge Labradorite |
134
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| 46. Newcomb Highway 28 Calcite with Graphite |
136
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| 47. Long Lake Highway 30 Fluorite and Calcite |
138
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| 48. Roaring Brook Falls Labradorite |
140
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| 49. Cascade Lakes Calcite and Diopside |
142
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| 50. Lewis Mine Entrance Wollastonite |
144
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| 51. Willsboro Dump Road Wollastonite, Garnet, and Diopside |
146
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| 52. Lyon Mountain Magnetite |
148
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| 53. Standish Slag |
152
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| 54. Pierrepont Dillabough Road Hematite |
155
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| 55. West Pierrepont Selleck Roat Tremolite |
158
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| 56. Pyrites Pyrite |
160
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| 57. Richville Rock Island Roadcut Calcite |
162
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| 58. Edwards Campbell Road Calcite |
164
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| 59. Star Lake Benson Mines Minerals |
166
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| 60. Fine Roadcut Titanite, Pyroxene, and Purple Fluorite |
168
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| 61. Hailesboro Banded Marble Road Cut |
170
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| 62. Balmat Sylvia Lake Talc |
172
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| 63. Talcville Tremolite and Talc |
174
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| 64. Harrisville Mine Blue Calcite and Wollastonite |
176
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| 65. Oxbow Road Calcite |
178
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| 66. Yellow Lake Roadcut Calcite |
180
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| Tug Hill Plateau | |
| 67. Whetstone Gulf Fossils |
182
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| 68. Whittaker Falls Brachiopods |
185
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| Allegheny Plateau | |
| 69. Thacher Park Zoophycos and Brachiopods |
188
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| 70. Schoharie Rickard Road Fossils |
192
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| 71. North Blenheim Schoharie Creek Fossils |
194
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| 72. Leesville Highway 20 Fossils |
196
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| 73. Cherry Valley Highway 20 Corals |
198
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| 74. Fly Creek / Cooperstown Highway 28 Fossils |
200
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| 75. Brookfield Beaver Creek Road Fossils |
202
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| 76. Hamilton Briggs Road Quarry Fossils |
205
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| 77. Hubbardsville Cole Hill Road Fossils |
207
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| 78. Morrisville Swamp road Fossils |
209
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| 79. Chittenango Falls Calcite and Celestite |
211
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| 80. Borodino Highway 41 Fossils |
214
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| 81. Pompey Center Highway 20 Fossils |
216
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| 82. Marcellus Shale Type Sections and Concretions |
218
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| 83. Tully I-81 and Highway 80 Fossils |
221
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| 84. Hoxie Gorge Fossils |
223
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| 85. Vestal Route 26 Fossils |
225
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| 86. Chemung Narrows Former Highway 17 Fossils |
228
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| 87. Waverly Old Highway 34 Rugose Corals |
230
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| 88. Portageville Highway 436 Road Aggregate Fossils |
232
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| 89. Fall Brook Falls Brachiopods and Corals |
235
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| 90. East Bethany Francis Road Railroad Cut Fossils |
237
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| 91. Alden Spring Creek Trilobites and Concretions |
239
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| 92. Chestnut Ridge Park Eternal Flame |
242
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| 93. Chautauqua Creek - Lyons Road Fossils |
244
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| Ontario Lowlands | |
| 94. Ontario Furnaceville Hematite |
247
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| 95. Genesee River Gorge Hematite |
251
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| Atlantic Coastal Plain | |
| 96. Penn Dixie Site Trilobites |
254
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| 97. South Branch Smokes Creek Fossils |
258
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| 98. Eighteen Mile Creek Fossils |
260
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| References Cited |
263
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| Index |
271
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| About the Author |
278
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