The physical geography of New York state . nciplethat the rugged-ness and manyof the character-istic features ofmountains d e -pend. In NewJersey there is aseries o f suchdense beds ofunusual kind,and one of theseenters the Stateof New Y o r 1:along the west-ern bank of the Hudson, from Upper Bay to are beds of trap rock, a black, dense diabase, whichis decidedly more durable than the enclosing sandstonestrata. In New York the diabase forms the Palisades, inNew Jersey several ranges of hills or low mountains, nota-bly those along the Hudson, near Hoboken, and alsothose near Pa
The physical geography of New York state . nciplethat the rugged-ness and manyof the character-istic features ofmountains d e -pend. In NewJersey there is aseries o f suchdense beds ofunusual kind,and one of theseenters the Stateof New Y o r 1:along the west-ern bank of the Hudson, from Upper Bay to are beds of trap rock, a black, dense diabase, whichis decidedly more durable than the enclosing sandstonestrata. In New York the diabase forms the Palisades, inNew Jersey several ranges of hills or low mountains, nota-bly those along the Hudson, near Hoboken, and alsothose near Paterson, Orange and other parts of northeast-ern New Jersey. During the Triassic, eastern New Jersey was beneaththe sea. An arm of the ocean also extended up the Con-necticut at least as far as the Vermont boundary; and atthe same time various other parts of the Eastern Stateswere submerged. Beds of sandstone and shale were de-posited in nearly horizontal position in these ocean the same time, in the Connecticut valley, and perhaps. FIG. 19. A mountain ridge in western Canada.(Notman, Photographer). 1 Sec references, p. 2. 62 The Physical Geography of New York State
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