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Geologic Sites Throughout New York State

  • outdoor rocks
    Adirondacks "Missing Time" Formation
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    Altona Formation
  • Cohoes falls
    Cohoes Falls
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    Garvies Point Preserve
  • rocky outcrop on the side of a road
    Hudson River Lake Clay Exposures
  • Adirondack Landscape
    Kaaterskill
  • keeseville3
    Keeseville
  • stone wall in park winter
    Lester Park
  • Waterfall
    Letchworth Gorge
  • Photo of Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls
  • rocky outcrop
    Pyrites Complex, Adirondack Lowlands
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    Shawangunk Ridge
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