New York State Geologic and Tectonic History

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New York State Geologic and Tectonic History
Step 1: Map
Step 2: Features
Feature Location Orientation
Sedimentary rocks E W090E
Igneous rocks W E135W
Weathered elements W E135W
Step 3: Report
Introduction
The main objective of this report is to explore the geologic as well as the tectonic history
of the southern New York State as well as an exploration of the hydrothermal deposition of the
economic mineral along a given shear zone.

The Northeastern United States geology began with the later Mesoproterozoic more than 1
billion years ago when the Grenville suite of metamorphic mong them Grenville Marble of the
Adirondack Mountains was created during the assembly that was held at the supercontinent of
Rodinia (Amidon et al., 2016). Early Ordovician as well as Cambrian carbonates alongside
clastics were deposited in deposited in continental shelf circumstances until the mid-Ordovician
Taconic Orogeny upon the metamorphosis of those carbonates to marbles in eastern New York,
south-eastern Connecticut, western Massachusetts and south-western Vermont. The carbonates
remained unchanged in central New York as well as from the late Silurian through the early
Devonian
Observations
While in the field, we noticed various types of rocks that were seemingly of various ages
and had undergone different types of deformations with time. We observed igneous as well as
metamorphic rocks. Evidence of weathering was noticed at the highest points of the site with the
orientation of the flow of the weathered elements beings in the East-West direction an illustration
of the slope of the region.
Discussion
Plate tectonics among them crustal evolution offers a basis of gashing a proper understanding
of the distribution as well as the origin of energy deposits alongside minerals (Atkinson, 2015).
The relationship between the mineral deposits and the plate tectonics is of importance of three
counts;
 Geological processes working owing to the energy generated at the plate boundaries
regulate the process of deposition of minerals