WEST VIEW
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
The view west from the Empire State Building provides a panaroma
of the Hudson River. The western shore of the Hudson (Jersey
City) sits on a low ridge which consists of biabase bedrock, the
southern extension of the volcanic Palisades Sill. The lowlands
of the Passaic River valley beyond is underlain by sediments of
the Mesozoic age Newark Basin. During the late Pleistocene the
Newark lowlands region was flooded by a great glacier-dammed
lake: Lake Passaic. The Ridge in the distance is an erosional
escarpment of volcanic lava flows of the Watchung Mountains. On
a very clear day the northwestern skyline is lined by the low
mountains along the eastern edge of the NY/NJ Highlands region.
Noteworthy buildings in Manhattan include Madison Square Garden,
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, and One Penn Plaza. The
Intrepid is docked on the east side of the River.
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March, 1997