Campsite Perfection
We’re back- site was down for several days …. July 18 through July 22
Stysh’s Brown Barn Campground was so lovely that we kept extending our stay…That also happened in Underhill VT so at this point we’re doing quite well!
Picked up Jodie ❤️ in Syracuse who is traveling with me and Ginge for a bit and was able to experience Stysh’s riverside campsite which gets a five plus 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 http://brownbarncampground.com/ Website doesn’t do our site justice! Our host ‘Dan’ is a gem…knows so much about the area and beyond but not imposing at all. This site was as Ginge calls, “Shangri-La”
New York State is vast and as we have discovered - full of fossils! We discovered riverside rocks chock full of sea fossils-fascinating!
The Precambrian: Precambrian rocks are exposed in the Adirondack region of New York. These rocks are mainly metamorphic and igneous and contain few fossils.
The Paleozoic: Paleozoic rocks are well represented in the state of New York. During the late Cambrian and Ordovician, sea level rose, covering the state with a shallow sea. Cambrian sedimentary rocks are preserved in patchy areas around the Adirondack Dome in northeastern New York. Ordovician rocks are more extensively exposed around the state. Fossils of trilobites, brachiopods, clams, and other marine organisms can be found in these rocks. Late in the Ordovician, an episode of mountain building (the Taconic Orogeny) buckled the crust and raised mountains in what is now southeastern New York. These mountains had eroded away by the Silurian, and sea level had dropped. The sea covering the western part of the state had become extremely shallow and salty, and rapid evaporation led to the formation of Silurian-age salt deposits. Marine fossils can be collected from Silurian rocks exposed between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes region.
Devonian-age sedimentary rocks are exposed in central and southern New York. Mountains formed by the Acadian Orogeny during this time eroded rapidly, providing huge amounts of sediments to rivers and streams. This sediment was deposited on the Catskill Delta and into the inland ocean to the west. Plant fossils indicate that some of the earliest forests flourished on the delta sediments. Erosion has removed all Carboniferous and Permian rocks in New York.
