Catskill Escarpment
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Biome | Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest |
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Falls and lakes | Kaaterskill Falls |
North-South Lake | |
Orogeny | Acadian orogeny |
Districts | Ulster County |
Greene County | |
Schoharie County | |
Types of rock | Shale |
Sandstone | |
Ages of rock | Silurian |
Devonian | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 2245847 |
About Catskill Escarpment
The Catskill Escarpment, often referred to locally as just the Escarpment or the Great Wall of Manitou, and known as the Catskill Front to geologists, is the range forming the northeastern corner of the Catskill Mountains in Greene and Ulster counties in the U. S. state of New York.