Caanan Road

Caanan Road

A rocky streambed with grassy hills in the background

Caanan Road - Knox Unconformity in Stream Bed
Located in Lewis County
Image courtesy of Robert Darling

Type: Stream side.

Features: Knox unconformity; Middle Ordovician; spheroidal weathering preserved in the feldspathic gneiss indicates a tropical environment.

Feature Type: Stratigraphic.

Reference: NYS Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, 72nd Annual Meeting 2000; Survey of the Geology of the Northwestern Adirondack Mountains and Black River Valley.

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Quadrangle: Glenfield.

Reason for Designation: Knox Unconformity is well exposed and the preserved evidence of middle Ordovician spheroidal weathering is unique in NYS.