Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 31, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Chris Saganich wrote: > Each summer we try to take a holiday to Big Sky, which is a house > built on top of a large hill, (some call them mountains) in the town > of Halcott, NY. They aren't mountains in the sense that they > weren't caused directly by an orogeny event but rather the uplift of > an entire sedimentary plateau which was deposited during the Acadian > orogeny. in any case Chris, it sounds like an orogenous zone... I always like to see your photos of this vacation...your work is beautiful, and it conveys how you savor this special time with your family, Steve > Today the plateau resembles a mountain range due to the subsequent > erosion by streams and the widening of valleys and rounding of hills > by glaciers. Look at some pictures mostly not of eroded hills. The > house is at about 3000 feet which is high for New Yorkers. > > <http://www.imagebrooklyn.com/Vacation%202008/Halcott%202008%20Page/halcott_2008_thumbpage.htm > > > > > Chris Saganich, M.S. > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > chs2018@med.cornell.edu > http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ > Ph. 212.746.6964 > Fax. 212.746.4800 > Office A-0049 > > > > > > > > > "I am the radiation" > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information