Ebenezer Emmons
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Ebenezer Emmons, was an American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.
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Taconic orogeny
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The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago and affected most of modern-day New England. A great mountain chain formed from Eastern Canada down through what is
Ebenezer Emmons
…In 1824, he assisted Chester Dewey in preparing a geological map of Berkshire County, in which the first attempt was made to classify the rocks of the Taconic area. He eventually attended the Rensselaer School (now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) for geology. There, he was inspired by professor Amos Eaton…
The "Taconic Unconformity" is an angular unconformity exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula