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The
Manhattan
Prong
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
Tours.
This
tour
takes
students
to
Central
Park
in
New
York
City
to
see
metamorphic
rock,
glacial
features,
differential
weathering,
and
Cleopatra's
Needle,
an
Egyptian
obelisk
brought
to
the
city
in
1881.
They
can
also
examine
bedrock,
float,
mass
wasting,
jointing,
and
glacial
polish
in
the
Pound
Ridge
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The
Erie
Ontario
Lowlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
tours.
This
tour
includes
glacial
history,
features,
and
views
of
Niagara
Falls,
the
Niagara
Escarpment,
current
and
former
spillways,
and
the
locks
at
Lockport,
New
York.
Students
can
also
learn
about
the
geology
and
glacial
history
of
Canandaigua
Lake,
one
of
New
York's
Finger
Lakes,
which
discharges
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The
Hudson
Highlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
Tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
This
tour
introduces
Hudson
Highlands
geology,
including
glaciology
at
Bear
Mountain,
views
of
the
Highlands,
and
the
Ramapo
Fault
to
the
south.
It
also
offers
other
information
about
the
area,
including
some
animals,
New
York
City's
water
supply,
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The
Hudson
Mohawk
Lowlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
This
tour
introduces
students
to
limestone
quarrying
along
the
western
shore
of
the
Hudson
River
south
of
Catskill,
New
York.
They
can
follow
the
courses
of
the
Mohawk
River
and
Erie
Canal
eastward
to
the
Cohoes
Falls
and
the
confluence
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The
Taconic
Mountains
tour
highlights
the
geology
and
natural
environment
of
several
landscape
regions,
including
the
structure
of
the
Highlands
Province
basement
rocks,
which
were
affected
by
the
Taconic
Orogeny.
Students
can
view
biotite-rich
schists
and
the
tight
isoclinic
folds
of
the
Walloomsac
Formation,
as
well
as
the
Taconic
angular
unconformity
at
the
south
end
of
Becraft
Mountain.
Bedding
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The
Allegheny
Plateau
tours
are
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
Tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
These
tours
showcase
examples
of
Allegheny
geology,
including
the
geomorphology
of
glacial
features
near
Tully,
New
York,
southern
Cayuga
Lake,
the
geology
and
geomorphology
of
Letchworth
State
Park
and
its
waterfalls,
as
well
as
waterfalls
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