WEST VIEW

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
NEW YORK, NEW YORK


The view west from the Empire State Building provides a panaroma of the Hudson River. The western shore of the Hudson (Jersey City) sits on a low ridge which consists of biabase bedrock, the southern extension of the volcanic Palisades Sill. The lowlands of the Passaic River valley beyond is underlain by sediments of the Mesozoic age Newark Basin. During the late Pleistocene the Newark lowlands region was flooded by a great glacier-dammed lake: Lake Passaic. The Ridge in the distance is an erosional escarpment of volcanic lava flows of the Watchung Mountains. On a very clear day the northwestern skyline is lined by the low mountains along the eastern edge of the NY/NJ Highlands region.

Noteworthy buildings in Manhattan include Madison Square Garden, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, and One Penn Plaza. The Intrepid is docked on the east side of the River.

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March, 1997