A two-panel geological cross-section redrawn on cream with navy strata and rust labels. The upper panel runs south from Long Branch past the Navesink Hills, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island to Hoboken; the lower panel runs from the city of New York along the Palisades and Croton Mountain, across the Tappan red-sandstone valley and Torn Mountain, into the granite and gneiss of the Highlands at Butter Hill and Crows Nest. Colored bands encode rock type — sand and marl, serpentine, red sandstone, trap or greenstone, and gneiss and granite.

A Geological Section from Sandy Hook to the Catskill Mountains, 1820

1820

Sandy Hook to the Catskills · northern New Jersey to New York (approx)

Samuel Akerly's 1820 cross-section — read before the Lyceum of Natural History of New York in August 1819 and published the next year by A. T. Goodrich & Co. of Broadway, Nassau, New York — redrawn in the Above the Hook brand system. Runs from Long Branch and the Neversink Hills, across Raritan Bay, over successive "trap or greenstone" ranges, and ends in the granite and gneiss of the Highlands.

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Title: A Geological Section from Sandy Hook to the Catskill Mountains, 1820
Date: 1820
Source: Redrawn by Above the Hook after Samuel Akerly · published by A. T. Goodrich & Co., New York · 1820
Contributor: The New York Public Library
Rights: Public domain (published 1820)
Slug: maps-geological-section-akerly-1820

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A Geological Section from Sandy Hook to the Catskill Mountains, 1820 (1820). Redrawn by Above the Hook after Samuel Akerly · published by A. T. Goodrich & Co., New York · 1820 The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/maps-geological-section-akerly-1820/.