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Buttermilk Falls

By Cosmos Mariner, July 14, 2017

Buttermilk Falls Marker

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1 ► New York, Tompkins County, Ithaca — Buttermilk Falls — A Small Part of a Grand Watershed —

For 12,000 years, Buttermilk Creek has splashed down the hill, gradually shaping its lovely glen and waterfalls in the rocks older than dinosaurs. The water of Buttermilk Falls begins its journey six miles south of here at Jennings . . . — — Map (db m146541) HM

2 ► New York, Tompkins County, Ithaca — Glaciers Cut the Valley; the Creek Cut the Gorge —

Several times over the past two million years, vast Ice Age glaciers plowed south from Canada. The glaciers dug out steep-sided valleys that now hold Cayuga Lake and the other Finger Lakes. Since the most recent glacier melted away12,000 years ago, . . . — — Map (db m146542) HM

3 ► New York, Tompkins County, Ithaca — Buttermilk's Rugged Rocks are Recycled Mountains —

The layers of rock in the cliffs and the waterfall were once mud, silt and sand on the bottom of a sea that covered much of what is now New York State. Rivers eroded these sediments from the rocks of an ancient Mountain range in eastern New York and . . . — — Map (db m146543) HM

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