Spring
2006 - Eastern & Northern New York
Late Pleistocene meltwater floods
Leader: Dr. David Barclay
Students exploring the Moss Island potholes in the Mohawk Valley.
Digging into deltaic deposits above the Ausable River at Keeseville. Photo by James Morgenthein.
Rippled sands at the Keeseville site. Photo by Krysdina Novak.
The group on the Lake Champlain shore at Plattsburgh Air Force Base.
Guest leader Dr. David Franzi (SUNY Plattsburgh) with the group at Flat Rocks, Altoona. The unusual ecology of this area has developed on bedrock surfaces that were scoured by meltwater outburst floods during the Late Pleistocene. Photo by James Morgenthein.
