Adirondack Marble Geology. Folded marble and calcsilicate east of speculator. Although the reason s for this doming remain to be fully elucidated. The protoliths of these metamorphic rocks were more or less impure limestone and dolostone deposited as shelf sediments in the trans adirondack basin.
Folded marble and calcsilicate east of speculator. South meadows lake was a temporary meltwater lake formed during the closing stages of wisconsin glaciation the last of the four main glaciations of the pleistocene ice age epoch.
Calcsilicate and granite south of tupper lake.
Geology of the adirondack park the adirondack dome the adirondack mountains are very different in shape and content from other mountain systems. It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite caco 3 and usually contains other minerals such as clay minerals micas quartz pyrite iron oxides and graphite. They mainly consist of metasedimentary rocks chiefly marbles and gneisses. Grenville marble forms the bedrock under rich lake here in newcomb.
