catskill mounatins in New York.?

Question

dascribe, how long have they been there, intresting facts about it

Answer 1

probable since the last ice age, beautiful.

Answer 2

There is a webiste about this! www. catskillarchive.com. The Catskill Mountain and the Regions around (1867).


The Greene County, which is most of the group or range of lofty heights known as the " Catskill Mountains" was formed from portions of Albany
and Ulster counties. March 25,1800.

Why was it named so?
It was named in honor of General Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island.


STRIKING PROOFS & illustrations met within the Catskilll Mountains and the region around as made known by the Science of Geology !

What are the 5 classes of rocks on and beneath the surface of the earth as divided by the geologists?
1. First and lowest are the primary or the crystalline which are in solid, massive, irregular forms without strata or layers.
What kinds of rocks are this kind?
granite
sienite
porphyry
trap
lava
They have no traces of plants or animals.
2. Palaeozoic class, contains the earliest traces of plants and animals, were most deposited in the oceans & was 33,000ft or 6 miles deep.
3. Secondary rocks, top of the lower new red or the Permian system to the top of the chalk formation , a depth or thickness of 5,000ft or nearly a mile.
4. Tertiary strata, partly solid with organic remains from the strata below, with average thickness of 2 thousand feet or 1/3 of a mile.
5. Last and upper most is the Alluvium, or the earth and rocks forming the surface of our globe to a decaying animal, mineral, and vegetable matter.


CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, as described by Microsoft Encarta Premium DVD, , is a low mountain group in Southeastern New York, froming part of the Appalachian Mountains, near the Hudson River.

What is the highest peak ?
The slide mountain , 1,281 meters (4,204 ft) above sea level.

What drains the region?
by the headstreams of the Delaware River and has several reservoirs owned by New York City.

Did you know that the American writer Washington Irving used the region as the locale of the short story Rip Van Winkle used ?

Did you also know that durign the 1800s a group of American landscape painters known as the Hudson River School were attracted to the scenic beauty of the Catskills?

There is an online guide to the Catskill Mountains!http:// www.catskillguide.com/

Answer 3

The Catskill Mountains (also known as simply the Catskills), a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are not, despite their popular name, true geological mountains, but rather a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau. They are sometimes considered an extension of the Appalachian Mountains into Upstate New York, although they are not geologically related. The Catskills are west of the Hudson River and lie within the bounds of six counties (Otsego, Delaware, Sullivan, Schoharie, Greene, and Ulster).

Answer 4

The Catskills began existence as a river delta 350 million years ago. Streams flowing off the then-mighty Taconic Mountains deposited sediment where the river met a sea (now the Allegheny Plateau. Eventually the Taconics eroded to their present size and the waters dried up, leaving a mostly flat plain.

During this time period, a meteor is believed to have struck the area. Panther Mountain is the remains of its crater.

Two hundred million years ago, as continental drift pushed up the Appalachians, the delta region rose almost uniformly into a plateau rather than breaking up into smaller mountains. Streams that formed over time eroded gaps and valleys, leaving today's "mountains

Answer 5

they havent been there that long the jews discovered it and built hotels there