Saturday, December 8 Talk

Next Saturday, December 8, I'll be giving a talk at the annual meeting of the Century House Historical Society at the Rosendale Community Center (directions).  It starts at 1:00 pm, it's free, and all are welcome.

Here's the description...

ROSENDALE: 400 MILLION YEARS OF HISTORY

While many people know that the Rosendale area was once famous for its natural cement, fewer realize that this geologic resource was due to a unique set of environmental conditions which existed a little over 400 million years ago.

Join SUNY Ulster geology professor Steven Schimmrich as he discusses how we know that our area was once dominated by Himalayan-sized mountains, erupting chains of volcanic islands, and shallow subtropical seas and how these conditions formed the sedimentary rocks and structures we see in our backyards today.