Old Growth Cedar Forest Tillman s Ravine New Jersey
West of the ridge crest the forest sits upon the High Falls formation, consisting of alternating red-green and olive colored sandstones and shales. In the higher elevations the softer red shales predominate, with the top layer being concealed by varying thicknesses of glacial till. The lower beds of the High Falls formation contain red quartzitic sandstones. Transition from the Shawangunk to the High Falls is not sharply defined but occurs very gradually. Excellent examples of the High Falls formation can be observed in the rock outcrops along Coursen Road and in Tillman Ravine. Tillman's Brook arises from springs on the Kittatinny Ridge. The brook cuts through reddish shales and sandstones. These sediments were deposited on the vast plain of a river delta at the edge of an inland sea that existed here about 420 million years ago. The sedimentary rock was lifted, cracked, and bent in several long and intense periods of mountain-building during the upheavals that created the Appalachians.
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