02
February
2025
Rock Talk: The Catskills, About 385 Million Years Ago
We are so very excited to welcome Dr. Chuck Ver Straeten, geologist from New York State Museum, for Rock Talk: The Catskills, About 385 Million Years Ago on Sunday, February 2 at 4pm. The presentation it is free and open to the public!
Rocks and fossils of the Catskills tell us about lands in New York long before dinosaurs. Andes-scale mountains along today’s Appalachians, rivers carrying mud and sand into New York and beyond. Earth’s oldest forests were scattered across eastern New York then, with primitive plants and animals.
For about 100 years, Earth’s oldest known fossil forest was at Gilboa. Discovered in 2009, the older Cairo Fossil Forest provides new views of these forests – root impressions of large trees, showing where each tree stood in a New York forest about 385 million years ago.
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