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What landscape regions do we find in NYS?

What landscape regions do we find in NYS?. What are the characteristics of the different landscapes?. Mountain. High elevations Slope : steep Mainly non-sedimentary rock Structure: distorted rock structures Faults Folds Tilted rocks Thin Soils.

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What landscape regions do we find in NYS?

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  1. What landscape regions do we find in NYS?

  2. What are the characteristics of the different landscapes?

  3. Mountain • High elevations • Slope : steep • Mainly non-sedimentary rock • Structure: • distorted rock structures • Faults • Folds • Tilted rocks • Thin Soils

  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whiteface_Mountain_from_Lake_Placid_Airport.JPGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whiteface_Mountain_from_Lake_Placid_Airport.JPG

  5. A mountaineer near the peak of Basin Mountain http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Basin1.JPG

  6. Note: Old mountains may be low in elevation and have little slope. http://images.vrbo.com/vrbo/images/6a68f

  7. Taconic Mountains http://www.greenmtn.edu/gmcjournal/images/110705_geology_trip.jpg http://images.vrbo.com/vrbo/images/6a68f

  8. Plateau • Medium to high elevation • Slope: low • Rock type: • sedimentary rocks • extrusive igneous lava flows • Rock Structure: • (undistorted) horizontal layers • Extrusions • Soil: Thin soil upland, deeper in valleys

  9. http://www.nps.gov/archive/grca/photos/images/T505.jpg

  10. http://www.catskill-3500-club.org/img/cal/catskill-fall-mountains-800x600.jpghttp://www.catskill-3500-club.org/img/cal/catskill-fall-mountains-800x600.jpg

  11. http://www.catskillcenter.org/vhikes/northlake_main.jpg

  12. Catskill “Mountains” Thomas Cole (American 1802–1848) Falls of Kaaterskill1826 Oil on canvas 43 x 36 in  Warner Collection, Tuscallosa, Alabama

  13. ‘Kindred Spirits’ Dura Asher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Asher_Durand_Kindred_Spirits.jpg

  14.  Kaaterskill Falls in the eastern Catskills of New York.  A subject for painters of the Hudson River School and the inspiration for  William Cullen Bryant’s poem, “Catterskill Falls.” http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v6n2/gallery/ravenal_j/images/4.jpg

  15. Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;All summer he moistens his verdant steeps,With the sweet light spray of the mountain-springs,And he shakes the woods on the mountain-side,When they drip with the rains of autumn-tide.But when, in the forest bare and old,The blast of December calls,He builds, in the starlight clear and cold,A palace of ice where his torrent falls,With turret, and arch, and fretwork fair,And pillars blue as the summer air.

  16. Note the even hilltops http://www.setdancingnews.net/news/photos/onews37/_B038012.jpg

  17. Metamorphic rock of Appalachian mountains on left, sedimentary rock of Allegheny Plateau on right Fault http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Junction_fault_0112.jpg9

  18. Plain • Elevation: low • Slope: gentle • Rock type: any • Structure • horizontal rock structure, unless it is a remnant of an old mountain region • Soil: deep topsoil

  19. Hempstead Plains http://www.newyorknature.net/Hempstead_Plains_preserve_2.jpg

  20. Take out your ESRT, open to pages 2 & 3 Next: I ♥ NY Lab

  21. CANADA

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