Downstate New York Rock Walks: An Explorers Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations Dunn C. Russell
Downstate New York Rock Walks: An Explorers Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations Dunn C. Russell Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling…
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Downstate New York Rock Walks: An Explorers Guide to Amazing Boulders and Rock Formations Dunn C. Russell
Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders.Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by advancing glaciers. Rock shelters and talus caves have also been used for thousands of years by Native Americans and Europeans seeking refuge from the elements. Many served as points of navigational reference at a time when the landscape was featureless and heavily forested, and still others were ceremonial sites for Native Americans.
It is important that these amazing natural wonders of stone be remembered and recorded before they