Whitehall - Death Rock

Whitehall - Death Rock

A picture of stone with arrows highlighting Garnet within the steon

Whitehall - Death Rock
Located in Washington County
Image courtesy of Glenn B. Stracher

Type: Trail.

Features: Outcrops of garnet-sillimanite-K (Calcium) feldspar-quartz metapelites,
alcsilicates, quartzites, graphitic schists; metagabbro.

Feature Type: Metamorphic.

Reference: NYS Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, 74th Annual Meeting 2002; Precambrian Geology of the Whitehall Area, Southeastern Adirondacks.

For online reference please visit - www.nysga.net/Guidebooks.html

Quadrangle: Whitehall.

Reason for Designation: Unique.