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TIN MOUNTAIN EVENTS 2024
Saturday, October 5, 10-11:30 a.m.
Nature in Focus: Images of Flora, Fauna, and
Landscapes of New England. Slow-paced,
naturalist-led walk.
Saturday, October 19
Virtual Program—Behind the Camera:
What Photography Taught Us
Thursday, November 14, 7 p.m.
Join Emilie Talpin and Steve Morello, OM SYSTEM
Ambassadors as they reflect on how their passion for photography turned into a dream job.
Saturday, November 23,
10-12:00 p.m. and 1-3:00 p.m.
Winter Greens and Wreath Making
Tin Mountain Nature
Learning Center
Visit www.tinmountain.org
or call (603) 447-6991 for updates,
additional dates and information.
except where the lava flows were preserved. The calderas
collapsed into the crust, burying the crystallized lava flows
deep in the earth.
In addition to the Ossipee Mountains, there are other remnant ring dikes throughout the White Mountains to the north.
As mentioned, thick deposits of volcanic rock are found on Moat
Mountain. When hiking up North or South Moat mountains, you
will start to see these Moat volcanic rocks as they outcrop in the
thinning soil, until the trails eventually become mostly bedrock
surface. When the rocks beneath your feet look black or have
rusted to a brownish color, you are stepping on the remains of
volcanic eruptions that took place right here in New Hampshire.
These volcanic rocks will contrast sharply with the surrounding
white and pink speckled granites in nearby rock. If you are up
on the Moats and look east across the Valley, there is a patchy
continuation of the Moat volcanic rock that crops up on and
near the summit of Mount Kearsarge. Check it out the next time
you head up to the view platform on Kearsarge.
The vast interior of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, now
full of fast-flowing streams, dark evergreen forests, and old
rail beds converted to hiking trails, is the bottom of a collapsed volcanic caldera composed of ancient granites. The
knife-edged Franconia Ridge on the western boundary of the
Pemigewasset Wilderness is part of a ring dike of the Albany
syenite. The narrow ring dike that surrounds the Pemigewasset
Wilderness can be traced on geologic bedrock maps continuing on to near the summit of Mount Garfield, then contouring
on the northern flanks of the Twin Ridge, over the north
shoulder of Mount Hale, continuing across the Zealand Valley,
and then following the southern flank of the Rosebrook Range,
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