2007-02-04 06:00:35 · 2 answers · asked by ned_karam_ved 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The Statue of Liberty is located on Liberty Island in upper New York Harbor. It is in New Jersey, near the state line with New York, and near the mouth of the Hudson River.
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/pricelst/ofmap/ofm20.pdf
The website above has a detailed quaternary geologic map that includes Liberty Island. It is mapped as Qbn--which is described as glacial deposits of sand and gravel laid down by glacial meltwater in glacial-lake deltas (the former glacier lake called Lake Bayonne).
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig113.jpg --very simplified color geologic map showing glacial deposits.
Here's some more information about the ice ages in this area: http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/morraines/quaternary.htm
You can see the location of big lakes (aqua in fig. 141) and you can see that this area was just on the edge of the Laurentide ice sheet in the late Pleistocene time (fig. 142)
General geology of New York City region:
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/common/introduction.htm
geologic map of New Jersey: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/freedwn/psnjmap.pdf
2007-02-04 09:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by luka d 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It stands on Liberty Island, in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor.
2007-02-04 15:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by gebobs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋