The Catskills in the Ice Age

Robert Titus

Purple Mountain Press

With the Hudson Valley in the Ice Age: A Geological History &amp; Tour, join Professors Robert and Johanna Titus on a tour of the Hudson River Valley and see this familiar region with new eyes the eyes of geologists who see a half-mile-thick sheet of ice grinding its way down the valley and overtopping even the highest mountains. With the Tituses as your guides, see an ancient Manhattan high and dry with the Atlantic shoreline 100 miles to the southeast, North/South Lake State Park as a giant and frigid waterslide park, and the immense expanse of Glacial Lake Albany stretching the entire length of the Hudson Valley with its deltas that would become the sites of some of America s most famous estates. Finally, witness the cataclysmic flood that cascaded through the valley at the end of the Ice Age as a great ice dam broke and a gigantic wall of water swept down the valley. Writing primarily for a general audience, the Tituses take the reader through the Catskills, the Shawangunks, the Taconics, along the banks of the Hudson River, to Bash Bish Falls and Lake Taghkanic to all those unique and beautiful places that make the Hudson Valley the landscape that defined America and demonstrate that all this beauty we see every day rose phoenix-like from the devastation caused by the slow, inexorable advance of a grinding, half-mile-thick bulldozer of ice and the raging flood that followed its retreat. The result of these devastating events is the landscape that inspired the Hudson River School painters and America s pioneer landscape architects gifts of the Ice Age, and the familiar landscape we enjoy today.

The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age: A Geological History & Tour

History

Johanna Titus

Americas

Black Dome Press Corp.

Product Description This book is about perception, about seeing our familiar world in a new light. We can spend a lifetime enjoying the natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains and still be blind to much that is there. But now, guided by two resident science professors, we can embark on a journey through the past for a clearer understanding of the present as well as the future, for as the authors conclude, Nothing, absolutely nothing, lasts forever. Stand anywhere in the Catskill Mountains and look up into the sky. Let your mind wander back 20,000 years into the past. Try to imagine a half mile of glacier rising above part of a vast sheet of ice reaching south from Labrador, crushing and grinding mountains and forests in its path as it slowly advances. The enormous weight of the ice pushes down on the surface, scraping and sculpting the mountains we know today. Next, fast-forward your vision thousands of years and witness in your mind s eye the melting of that ice raging, foaming, pounding, thundering torrents of water flowing out from the melting ice to form the picturesque cloves and waterfalls of today s Catskills, creating the landscape that inspired the Hudson River School painters gifts of the Ice Age. Review In Robert and Johanna Titus s newest book, The Catskills in the Ice Age, Third Revised Edition, each chapter is an epic voyage. Words flow like glacial meltwaters, picking you up and sweeping you along from page to page, chapter to chapter, transporting you through time back to the ancient Catskills of tens of thousands of years ago and then returning you to the present. Sit back and enjoy the ride or, better yet, carry the book with you as you explore the Catskills and see the familiar landscape as you never have before. --Russell Dunn, author of 15 NYS guidebooks From the Inside Flap This book is about perception, about seeing our familiar world in a new light. We can spend a lifetime enjoying the natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains and still be blind to much that is there. But now, guided by two resident science professors, we can embark on a journey through the past for a clearer understanding of the presentas well as the future, for as the authors conclude, Nothing, absolutely nothing, lasts forever. Stand anywhere in the Catskill Mountains and look up into the sky. Let your mind wander back 20,000 years into the past. Try to imagine a half mile of glacier rising abovepart of a vast sheet of ice reaching south from Labrador, crushing and grinding mountains and forests in its path as it slowly advances. The enormous weight of the ice pushes down on the surface, scraping and sculpting the mountains we know today. Next, fast-forward your vision thousands of years and witness in your minds eye the melting of that iceraging, foaming, pounding, thundering torrents of water flowing out from the melting ice to form the picturesque cloves and waterfalls of todays Catskills, creating the landscape that inspired the Hudson River School painters  gifts of the Ice Age. In Robert and Johanna Tituss newest book, The Catskills in the Ice Age, Third Revised Edition, each chapter is an epic voyage. Words flow like glacial meltwaters, picking you up and sweeping you along from page to page, chapter to chapter, transporting you through time back to the ancient Catskills of tens of thousands of years ago and then returning you to the present. Sit back and enjoy the ride or, better yet, carry the book with you as you explore the Catskills and see the familiar landscape as you never have before.  Russell Dunn, author of Catskill Region Waterfall Guide and more than 30 other books exploring the geography of the Northeast About the Author Robert Titus and Johanna Titus are, respectively, retired professors of geology and biology. They are best known in the Catskills as popular science writers. They write for three regional magazines Kaatskill Life, Upstate Life and Catskill Tri-County H

The Catskills in the Ice Age: Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Geologist Robert Titus has developed a remarkable ability to reach out and communicate Catskill geological history to the general public in his many articles in Kaatskill Life magazine. But few know Titus has also written hundreds of newspaper columns as well. Now he gets a chance to reprint his favorite articles. If you love Catskill landscapes, this book will present insights that you will find nowhere else.

The Other Side of Time: Essays by "The Catskill Geologist"

The quarrying of Catskill Mountain bluestone (a number of different types of sandstone of varying colors) once supplied sidewalk paving and architectural stone in great quantities for cities in the East. The advent of concrete brought this huge industry to a virtual standstill. Today there has been a revival of interest in architectural bluestone, and it is once again a multi-million-dollar industry in the Catskills. This booklet is co-published with the New York Folklore Society.

Catskill Mountain Bluestone

Alf Evers

Tim Weidner

Geology is America's favorite science. As children we commonly develop a keen interest in this science of dinosaurs and volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes, and given encouragement, we never give up that fascination. Robert and Johanna Titus have revised and expanded this book, first published in 1993.Learn about the great geological history hidden in the region's rocks and landscapes. Here is the story of continental collisions, lost mountain ranges, and primitive fossil creatures lost in an ancient sea. But most of all, it is a story of the land of Gilboa, among the oldest forests on earth. Explore the 400 million year old history of the Catskills.

The Catskills: A Geological Guide Expanded Edition

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