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	Taconic Mountains - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Taconic Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains, running along the eastern border of New York State, United States.
		The highest peak is Mount Equinox, with an elevation of 3,816 feet (1163 m).
		The Taconic mountain range was formed from the collision of the North American Plate into a volcanic island arc, similar to modern day Japan, during the late Ordovician Period, around 440 million years ago.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Taconic_Mountains (122 words)

	Appalachian Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		South of New York, the mountains are loosely organized into two large plateau regions, the Allegheny Plateau in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, and the Cumberland Plateau in southern West Virginia, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.
		These mountains are a geographical boundary between the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Midwestern regions of the country.
		A look at rocks exposed in today's Appalachian mountains reveals elongated belts of folded and thrust faulted marine sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks and slivers of ancient ocean floor, which provides strong evidence that these rocks were deformed during plate collision.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/ap/appalachian_mountains.html (677 words)

	Wikinfo \| Appalachian Mountains
		South of New York, the mountains are loosely organized into two large plateau regions, the Allegheny Plateau in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, and the Cumberland Plateau in southern West Virginia, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.
		These mountains are a geographical boundary between the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Midwestern regions of the country.
		A look at rocks exposed in today's Appalachian mountains reveals elongated belts of folded and thrust faulted marine sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks and slivers of ancient ocean floor, which provides strong evidence that these rocks were deformed during plate collision.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Appalachian_Mountains (738 words)

	Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second pronunciation, with a 'short a' (as in "cat"), is favored in the southern part of the mountain range and in the Piedmont region, such as in Virginia and the Carolinas [1].
		In addition to the true folded mountains, known as the ridge and valley province, the area of dissected plateau to the north and west of the mountains is usually grouped with the Appalachians.
		In the folded mountains the coal is in metamorphosed form as anthracite represented by the Coal Region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Appalachian_mountains (2574 words)

	Natural History Chapter
		Mountain ranges are formed where two plates converge, and the kind of mountains formed depends primarily on the kind of plates and their movement.
		In the Taconic Mountains, the rocks were so severely folded that a whole fold fell over to the west, then the whole mass slid further west along a thrust fault, forming an overturned fold or nappe.
		The Taconic Mountains in the southwestern corner of the state are a single, large, overturned klippe composed of folded slates, quartzites, and phyllites, with locally limy layers, and a moderate degree of metamorphism.
	www.nasw.org /users/nbazilchuk/Articles/ch1web.htm (8513 words)

	Natural History Chapter
		Mountain ranges are formed where two plates converge, and the kind of mountains formed depends primarily on the kind of plates and their movement.
		In the Taconic Mountains, the rocks were so severely folded that a whole fold fell over to the west, then the whole mass slid further west along a thrust fault, forming an overturned fold or nappe.
		The Taconic Mountains in the southwestern corner of the state are a single, large, overturned klippe composed of folded slates, quartzites, and phyllites, with locally limy layers, and a moderate degree of metamorphism.
	nasw.org /users/nbazilchuk/Articles/ch1web.htm (8513 words)

	Chapter 15-Ecological Subregions of the United States
		The mountainous belt is underlain by Paleozoic igneous rocks (granite, diorite, gabbro, rhyolite, and basalt) that either intrude or both intrude and cover lower Paleozoic schists, and by Proterozoic and Cambrian gneiss.
		The Taconic Mountains are west of and separated from the southern Green and Berkshire Mountains by a broad, nearly continuous valley (the Marble Valley) about 1,500 ft (460 m) lower than the highlands on either side.
		The Taconic mountains are characterized by Eutrochrepts, Dytrochrepts, and Udipsamments, with mesic temperature regime and udic moisture regime on lower mountain slopes and in the Marble Valley; Fragiochrepts and Dystrochrepts with frigid temperature regime and udic moisture regime occur at higher elevations.
	www.fs.fed.us /land/pubs/ecoregions/ch15.html (4885 words)

	Mountains
		Mountains have long had an impact on the human psyche, for instance by virtue of their association with the divine in the Greek myths, the Bible, and other religious or cultural traditions.
		From the standpoint of geology and plate tectonics, mountain geomorphology embraces a complex of characteristic formations, not all of which are necessarily present in a given orogen, or mountain.
		Mountain belts, as described earlier, typically are grouped according to formation process and types of plates: island arcs, continental arcs (formed with the subduction of an oceanic plate by a continental plate), and collisional mountain belts.
	www.scienceclarified.com /everyday/Real-Life-Chemistry-Vol-7/Mountains.html (5597 words)

	Taconic Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taconic Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains, running along the eastern border of New York State, United States.
		The highest peak is Mount Equinox, with an elevation of 3,816 feet (1163 m), at the northern end of the range in Manchester, Vermont.
		The Taconic mountain range was formed from the collision of the North American Plate into a volcanic island arc, similar to modern-day Japan, during the late Ordovician Period, around 440 million years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taconic_Mountains (147 words)

	The Geology of Vershire, Vermont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is the one that built the Taconic mountains that run from south of Rutland to the suburbs of New York City, including parts of the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
		Mountains can be built from forces other than continental collision, although all tectonics are related to the movement of the various plates.
		During all these millenia of mountains forming and seas spreading, there were probably many ice ages and warm periods, but most of the results of those have been destroyed by all the geologic activity.
	www.sover.net /~bland/geology.htm (2073 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		The Highlands region is equivalent to the ancient, worn-down mountains of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces in North Carolina and Virginia, and is equivalent to the New England Upland Province to the north.
		This is particulary evident in the Taconic Mountains, throughout the Hudson Valley, and in portions of the New Jersey Highlands.
		To the north and east, the boundary between the Hudson Highlands, the Taconic Mountains, and the Western Connecticut Uplands region is indistinct, partly because of the occurrence of numerous thrust faults and large igneous Middle Paleozoic intrusions in the region.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/highlands/highlands.html (3481 words)

	Geol Evol Virginia-Cross Section H
		The HFRV fault is not new; it was active in the Grenville (Stage A), and is reactivated by the Taconic collision.
		These mountains were large and the thrust faults brought Cambrian/early Ordovician divergent continental margin rocks (Stage D), as well as terrane rocks up into the mountain to be eroded (C-C').
		But in the Taconic even this is not simple because we have two major sourcelands, one in the north and one in the south (not to mention the terrane blocking the opening of the reentrant), and several foreland basins.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/vageol/vahist/H-MidO.html (2256 words)

	phpr_ah
		Westerly transport of the BR began during the Taconic orogeny (Middle-Late Ordovician) and was reactivated during the Alleghanian (Carboniferious-Permian) orogeny.
		Pilot Mountain, a conspicuous, isolated peak in the middle of the North Carolina Piedmont.
		The Catskill Mountains are comprise of the Acadian clastic wedge.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Taconic
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Taconic (810 words)

	Vermont Geography - NETSTATE
		The granite mountains of the Northeast Highlands are divided by swift flowing streams.
		The Green Mountains are an important source of minerals such as granite, marble, slate and talc, as well as the center of the Vermont tourism industry.
		Equinox Mountain (3,816 feet), Dorset Peak (3,770 feet), Little Equinox Mountain (3,320 feet), Mother Myrick Mountain (3,290 feet), and Bear Mountain (3,260 feet) are found in the Taconic Mountains of Vermont.
	www.netstate.com /states/geography/vt_geography.htm (652 words)

	Physiographic Setting
		The principal mountain ranges are the Green, Taconic, and White, while the Berkshire Hills and Hoosac Mountains are southern extensions of the Green Mountains and are of lesser elevation.
		The region is one of complex mountains consisting primarily of metamorphic (schist, gneiss, slate, and marble) and igneous (largely granites) rocks of very ancient age that have been greatly compressed, uplifted, and deeply denuded, first by fluvial agents and later by glaciers.
		The Taconic Mountains section of the New England Province runs in a narrow north-south trending strip along the southeastern border of New York, the southwestern border of Vermont, the western border of Massachusetts, and the northwestern border of Connecticut.
	training.fws.gov /library/pubs5/web_link/text/geolsect.htm (7885 words)

	Taconic Mountains - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Taconic Mountains, range of the Appalachian Mts., extending c.150 mi (240 km) north-south between the Green Mts.
		The Taconics, among the oldest mountains in North America, have been worn low by millions of years of erosion.
		Geochemical comparison of mafic, felsic, and ultramafic rocks in the Hurricane Mountain melange to the Boil Mountain ophiolite complex, west-central Maine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-TaconicM.html (423 words)

	New York State Parks
		The Catskill Park is a mountainous region of public and private lands in Ulster, Greene, Delaware and Sullivan Counties - the "forest preserve" counties.
		Directions: Directly on the Taconic State Parkway, one mile north of the Route 55/Poughkeepsie exit, in central Dutchess County, midway between Albany and New York City.
		Hunter Mountain Wild Forest encompasses almost 11,000 acres in the northeast portion of the Catskill Park.
	www.bearsystems.com /StateParks/StateParks.htm (2122 words)

	www.ny.gov - GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF TACONIC STATE PARK
		The new property is adjacent to the Rudd Pond Area of the State Park and is a critical link in protecting the Taconic Ridge and insuring the potential for an extension of the South Taconic Trail.
		Purchased from the Liebeskind family of Millerton, the parcel runs along the western escarpment of the ridge and is also a valuable component of the Taconic Mountains seen from the Harlem Valley.
		Taconic State Park is located along 11 miles of border separating New York State from Massachusetts and Connecticut and encompassing portions of Columbia and Dutchess Counties.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/press/05/may18_05-3.htm (773 words)

	Taconic State Parkway
		This section, which later became known as the Bear Mountain State Parkway, was originally part of the "Bronx Parkway Extension." The right fork was to continue north to the "Eastern State Parkway," which later became the Taconic State Parkway.
		When the Taconic State Parkway was completed through Westchester County, it consisted of a 42-foot-wide undivided roadway, 12 highway bridges, two railroad bridges, and a 750-foot steel arch bridge spanning Croton Lake.
		Like its predecessor, the Taconic State Parkway took a valley route, and was designed with narrow, unseparated lanes, a relatively narrow right-of-way, and a tightly framed landscape (consisting of local vegetation and earthen berms) that screened out the dense development of the county.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/taconic (3499 words)

	Vermont - MSN Encarta
		The New England province in Vermont is broken into the Green Mountain section, the New England Upland, the Taconic section, and the White Mountain section.
		The highest point in the Taconic Range is Mount Equinox at 1,163 m (3,816 ft).
		The Champlain section of the St. Lawrence Valley province lies between the western border of Vermont and the Green and Taconic mountains.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573766/Vermont.html (764 words)

	Bedrock
		The Berkshires are the worn remnants of this mighty mountain chain.
		The Taconic Mountains are a small momento of this event.
		For longer periods, the sea was murky with the sediment from the eroding ancestral Taconic mountains to the east.
	www.perinton.org /bedrock.cfm (865 words)

	Place in Massachusetts History
		The rocks that form these ancient mountains are some of the oldest in the state—perhaps formed around a billion years ago.
		These lowlands, ‘sandwiched’ between the Berkshires to the east and the Taconics to the west, are formed in the easily eroded limestone and marble zones of the highlands.
		The highest mountain in the state, Mt Greylock (3500 feet), in the City of Adams, and Mt Everett (in the Town of Mt Washington in the far southwest corner of Massachusetts) over 2600 feet, are in the Taconic Mountains.
	www.msp.umb.edu /WebShow1_files/slide0113.htm (828 words)

	Wallingford Town Plan Section 8
		The eastern two-thirds of the town--including its highest peaks and remotest areas--lies in the Green Mountain physiographic region, while the westernmost one-sixth of the town is part of the Taconic Mountain physiographic region.
		The forests and streams of the Green Mountains and the fertile soil of the Otter Creek Valley provided the settlers of Wallingford with the wood, waterpower, and farmland needed to establish their frontier agricultural community as early as 1780.
		It is bounded by the Green Mountains to the east and the Taconic Mountains to the west.
	www.wallingfordvt.com /town_plan_section_08.htm (4885 words)

	Taconic
		Taconic was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1710) at Wilmington, N.C., on 19 December 1944 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 10 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs.
		In January 1963, Taconic patrolled the Haitian coast during political unrest in that country.
		After 12 months of operations and preparations for decommissioning, the amphibious force flagship was placed out of commission, in reserve, on 17 December 1969 at Norfolk, Va. She was berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at its James River, Va., berthing area and remained there into October 1979.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t1/taconic.htm (485 words)

	Unique Facts About the United States of America: The Appalachian Mountains
		The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec.
		The Adirondack Mountains are sometimes considered part of the Appalachian chain but, geologically speaking, are a southern extension of the Laurentian Mountains of Canada.
		In addition to the true folded mountains, known as the ridge and valley province, the area of dissected plateau to the north and west of the mountains is usually grouped with them.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /usaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-USA1.htm (459 words)

	The Geological History of Pittsburgh - Building the Appalachian Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The roots are all that remain of the mountains formed during the Grenville Orogeny, exposed in some parts of eastern Pennsylvania.
		The Taconic Orogeny, the next mountain-building event that affected the Pittsburgh area, occured approximately 445 - 435 million years ago, as North America collided with an island arc (a string of subduction-related volcanic islands, like Japan and the Phillipines, formed when oceanic crust subducts under oceanic crust).
		As erosion continued to eat away at the Taconic Mountains, huge amounts of sediment were carried into central and western Pennsylvania, and were deposited in a giantdelta.
	www.geology.pitt.edu /PAgeo/events.html (608 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the Taconic Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Over vast stretches of geologic time—as the Earth boiled and cooled, volcanoes erupted, earthquakes rocked the land, and continents crushed together—mountains rose and fell, seas and lakes filled and drained, a mile-high sheet of ice advanced and receded.
		The highest peaks in the Taconics today are less than 4000 feet high, but millions of years ago they towered to 14,000 feet while the Catskills lay under tropical seas.
		Included within the book, published for the first time, is a full-color geological map for Columbia County - the heart of the Taconics - the result of over fifty years of fieldwork and study.
	www.blackdomepress.com /books/taconic.html (255 words)

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