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The Palisades. The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades, are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in Northeastern New Jersey and Southeastern New York in the United States. The cliffs stretch north from Jersey City about 20 miles (32 km) to near Nyack, New York, and are ...
The Palisades, basalt bluffs 200–540 feet (60–165 meters) high along the west side of the Hudson River, southeastern New York and northeastern New Jersey, U.S. Rising vertically from near the water’s edge, they are characterized by uplifts, faults, and columnar structure developed by slow cooling of molten material near the end of the Triassic Period (252 to 201 million years ago). The ...
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Jul 20, 2023 · The Palisades form a dramatic backdrop along the Hudson River in New Jersey. Roughly 200 million years old, the cliffs record deep geological time within a bucolic park with trails and wildlife ...
- Sebastian Modak
The largest recorded rockslide in the Palisades Interstate Park occurred in 1938. It exposed a giant-sized shape of what looked to some like a man with a mustache (perhaps even one of history’s most evil leaders, a few insisted) on the cliff face. In any event, the alleged portrait was “erased” by another slide 9 years later.
In the late 1800s, when the streets of New York City were being paved on a large scale, there was an even greater attack on the Palisades. Because of the tremendous value of the ancient rock, the Palisades were in great danger. In Rockland County there were 31 quarries between Grandview and Upper Nyack.
Construction of the Palisades Interstate Parkway began in New York in 1947, in New Jersey in 1948. A “demonstration mile” for the public opened in Englewood Cliffs in 1950. The final section in New Jersey was completed in Alpine on June 22, 1957.
Mar 17, 2023 · The Palisades were included on the first European map of the Americas, drawn in 1541. Gerardus Mercator based his portrayal of the grand river ridge on Giovanni da Verrazzano’s description. This cliffy area along the Hudson that is now Palisades Interstate Park was the site of George Washington’s retreat during the American Revolution and of 18 officially documented duels.
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