Watkins Glen in Ithaca New York's
Watkins Glen State Park is located outside the village of Watkins Glen, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County in New York's Finger Lakes region. It has an erosion-sculptured chasm, craggy rock formations, and the cascading water of nineteen waterfalls. All of the nineteen waterfalls are within two miles, as the glen's stream descends 400 feet past 200-foot cliffs. The gorge path winds over and under waterfalls and through the spray of Cavern Cascade and Rainbow Falls. Rim trails overlook the gorge.
The rocks of the area are sedimentary of Devonian age that are part of a dissected plateau that was uplifted with little faulting or distortion. They consist mostly of soft shales, with some layers of harder sandstone and limestone.
#GeologyHelp #GeologyOfTheWorld
#Geology #Devonian #sedimentary #rocks #shales #sandstone #limestone
#Environment #Area #cliffs #stream #waterfalls
#geomorphology #erosion_sculptured #rock_formations #faulting #layers
