File:Boquet River (eastern Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA) 4 (23828057772).jpg

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This is the Boquet River in the eastern Adirondack Mountains of New York State. The rocks here are part of the Marcy Anorthosite, a large, Precambrian-aged, intrusive igneous pluton dominated by large crystals of calcic plagioclase feldspar. Rocks in a roadcut just across the road from the waterfall overlook's parking lot are garnetiferous metanorthosites.

Geologic unit: Marcy Anorthosite, ~mid-Mesoproterozoic, 1.145 to 1.165 Ga

Locality: Boquet River at Split Rock Falls overlook, southern side of Rt. 9, south-southwest of Elizabethtown, Essex County, eastern Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA
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Author James St. John

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