Type: Landscape

Habitat description: The Adirondack Mountains are an unusual geological formation located in the northeastern lobe of Upstate New York in the United States. The mountains rise in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties. They are the only mountains in Eastern U.S that aren’t geographically Appalachian.

Natural history information: Adirondack mountains form a circular dome, 160 miles wide and 1 mile high. The dome shape emerged about 5 million years ago from ancient rocks more than 1,000 million years old. “new mountains formed from old rocks”
What do you find interesting about this image? What drew your attention to this image? I thought this picture was beautiful and also portrayed the radial drainage characteristic of the mountain well.