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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Shawangunk Ridge
The ridge is primarily composed of a hard quartzite conglomerate and sandstone caprock overlying shale.
The ridge is widest (7.5 miles/12 kilometers) near the northern end, narrow in the middle (1.25 miles/under 2 kilometers) with a maximum elevation of 2,289 feet (698 meters) at Lake Maratanza on the Shawangunk Ridge.
The entire ridge was glaciated during the last (Wisconsin) glaciation which scoured the ridges, left pockets of till, and dumped talus (blocks of rock) off the east side of the ridge.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Shawangunk_Ridge   (848 words)

  
 Shawangunk Mountains - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Shawangunk Mountains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Shawnagunk Mountains consist mainly of a single ridge running southwest from Roundout Creek, near Kingston, New York, to join the Kittatinny Mountain ridge near Port Jervis, on the New Jersey border.
They are sometimes divided into the Northern and Southern Shawangunks, with the division at Sam's Point.
Geologically, the Northern Shawangunks are a hard sedimentary conglomerate and sandstone band around 10 km/6 mi wide, while the Southern Shawangunks are only a mile across.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Shawangunk+Mountains   (199 words)

  
 ★ New York State Information - Encyclopedia Article
Which of the suburban counties north of The Bronx along the Hudson River (Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam) count as "Upstate" depends on who is making the list.
Upstate New York includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger and Great Lakes in the west and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast, and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna.
The highest elevation in New York is Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks.
www.newyorkstatesearch.com /information/New_York_State_information.html   (2583 words)

  
 Alumni Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Judson L. Jeffries, MPP '90, has published Urban America and Its Police: From the Postcolonial Era Through the Turbulent 1960's (University Press of Colorado, 2003), co-authored with Harlan D. Hahn.
Steve Jordan '80, photographer, published a collection of his photos, Strength Beauty Spirit: Images of the Mohonk Preserve and Shawangunk Ridge (Clove Editions, 2003).
Pierre Joris, PhD '90 has published A Nomad Poetics: Essays (Wesleyan University Press, 2003).
alumni.binghamton.edu /authors   (4130 words)

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