Adirondack Geology: How the Adirondacks Were Formed is part one.

The doming of the Adirondacks gave rise to the mountain range and the subsequent sculpting of those mountains by glaciers during the Ice Age.

The shaping of the Adirondacks was part of a larger process.The story involves the coming together and breaking up of continents and the closing of ancient oceans.

The Adirondacks are a unique mountain range.They are not part of the mountains.The mountains are made of old rocks and are growing fast.

About 1.6 million years ago, when cooling climates around the world led to the retreat of huge ice sheets in the northern hemisphere, the second series of events to shape the Adirondack landscape began.The era is known as the Ice Age.

The Adirondacks have a wide range of features and landforms.

The Black Pond Trail is a great place to observe an esker.The western boundary of Black Pond is an esker.The western shoreline of Black Pond is between the esker and the pond.The esker will be on the left side of Black Pond, which was formed from large chunks of ice embedded in the retreating glacier.

A mound of sand and gravel is called a kame.The depressions were filled with sand and gravel when the water flowed over the glacier's surface.The material from the glacier was deposited on the landscape as mounds.

The valley of Giant Mountain is an example of a cirque in the Adirondack Mountains, which continues to erode as rock slides expose its steep walls.Whiteface Mountain has a distinctive shape due to Cirques.There are three carved glaciers on the east, west, and north sides of the mountains.The ridges are called aretes.Whiteface Mountain would look like the Matterhorn in Switzerland if the glaciers had persisted.

A kettle pond or lake was created when a kettle hole formed below the water table.Kettle hole lakes and ponds are circular in shape, lack an obvious inlet and outlet stream, and are fed by a high water table.In the Adirondacks, many of the small, circular ponds and wetlands were created in this way.Simkins Pond is near Paul Smith's College, as well as Ice House Pond and Helldiver Pond in the Moose River Recreation Area.

Y.W.The Geology of New York: A simplified account was written by Isachsen.The second edition of The University of the State of New York was published in 2000.There were 69-103, 301-340.

The man is Jerry Jenkins.The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park was published in 2001.8-13

B.There is a van Diver.Roadside Geology of New York was published in 1985.The score was 6-39, 299-387.

The Adirondack Mountain Club published a Hikers Guide to Geology of the Adirondack High Peak Region.