Jackie, i think scree is pretty common up and down Appalalain's-- and i know it also exist in Rockies-- same sort of factured shale-- most of the scree i've seen has been slag heaps (I paid good money to take a tour of a coal mine, and afterwards when fosile hunting-- they took us to a slag heap of shale, and let us climb up, and slip down the scree while hunting-- but i got some good fosiles!)
We also got to see a great example of a syncline and anticline-- geologist are fun--
Their names for things show even they have trouble remembering what's what.
Like:
Syncline's point down-- to the place sinners might end up--
Anticlines go up
These words are used to define the corregated like folds in rocks-- They are commonly seen in mountainous areas, and US east coast (very old, very eroded mountain range) has some great examples. In new mountain ranges they are often not as visible.
and
stalactites (stay up on the roof of a cave---glued on tight!) and stalacmites.
One of NY geologist-- Sydney Horstein-- has a little ditty about NY geology
Manhattan is schist
The Bronx is gneiss,
and NY is not with out its faults!
(it is common to intentionally mispronounce schist)
It not much-- but we've had 2 earthquakes in the past 2 months-- both in the 2's (2.5 and 2.9--i think) one on Manhattan's east side (felt 30 mile away) and one in lower Connecticut, and Ohio had one too.
