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The NYC Region - the barren, glacier-scoured hilltop

By Geology and Ecology of National Parks
This is a photo of a view of the barren, glacier-scoured hilltop above Claudius Smith Den in Harriman State Park.
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View of the barren, glacier-scoured hilltop above Claudius Smith Den in Harriman State Park. The view of the hilltops in the distance illustrates the Schooley Peneplain, a mid-Tertiary erosional surface that is now the top of the regional erosionally dissected plateau.

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