How an ancient lake built New York City
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- When you look at a brick building, you probably don’t think of a giant glacial lake that existed over 10,000 years ago…but after watching this video, you will.
Did you know that at the end of the last ice age, there were several large glacial lakes in New York filled with melt water? One of those lakes is called Lake Albany, which eventually flooded out into the ocean and became the Hudson River. The Hudson Valley is rich in history, both geologic and human, and in this story you’ll see one of the many ways they intertwine.
Thank you very much to Rachel Whitlow, Executive Director at Haverstraw Brick Museum, and Dana Dalton from Hutton Brickyards for your time and support in creating this video!
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Here are some sources that you can take a look at if you’re interested in learning more in-depth about this topic:
www.huttonbrickyards.com/history
www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org/
time.com/6155326/great-fire-n...
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/ny...
www.scenichudson.org/viewfind...
hudsonvalleyone.com/2018/01/1...
neversinkmuseum.org/articles/...
brickcollecting.com/hudson.htm
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digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...
www.huttonbrickyards.com/history
www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org/ 
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My grandfather worked the Hutton brick yard in Kingston, NY for many years during the '20's and '30's. It was a night club/restaurant back in '80's. My aunt is a Hutton and I went to school with a few of them too. My brother has a Hutton brick 5 feet from me right now that he uses for a door stop for his front door.
PLEASE keep it up! 7 months is too long! Your enthusiasm is contagious. There's demand to learn geology, a lot of people discover they're into a topic just from RUclips alone.
I’ve never cared much about bricks but when you tied them to a lake from 15,000 years ago, it made it interesting for me. I’ve never thought about, that whenever I enter a building made of bricks from an ancient clay, I’m literally inside something that was at the bottom of a lake 15,000 years ago. And I think that’s pretty cool.
This video just popped up on my suggestions and I’m glad it did. You’ve got yourself a new subscriber from NYC. Take care lass
Awesome video, I learned a lot!
Funnily enough, I worked on the Hudson surveying river herring earlier this year. One of our sites was literally right next to the brickyard you visited in Kingston. Our goal was to capture as many herring as possible with a 300ft seine net. We only pulled the net in once at each site since it is so large and heavy, and it could fit hundreds of fish. We would pull up close to shore on our boat, hop into the water in our waders, and pull in the EXTREMELY HEAVY net that we are all hoping will be full of beautiful river herring. Except at this site. At this site we tripped on the bricks and fell in the water. Or had the heavy bricks get caught in the net which let all the fish escape and ruined our efforts. Suffice to say, I did not like the bricks. But thanks to your video, I can at least say I have a mild appreciation for those bricks.
P.S. - I know that glacial erratic (1:13), I see it almost everyday because I work there! If you've ever thought of doing a public geology tour (or just want to talk to some more geology nerds), let's get in touch!
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing this story hahah I'm glad I could help give you some appreciation of the bricks, if mild 😅 Also, so cool you work at Sam's Point?? Love it there and was just there recently at the ice caves! Feel free to send me an email if you ever are interested in setting up a geology walk. I do give walks sometimes in Dutchess County with Dutchess Land Conservancy and we have one coming up in December so definitely check out their website as well if you're interested in joining!
Here in Northern West Virginia, eastern Ohio and western PA we have our own glacial lake, Lake Monongahela but it's much older. But we too had a robust brick industry. Fairmont and Hammond were locally famous for its bricks. Along the Tygart River at Hammond there are beaches of bricks. Some of the clays were excellent for pottery with many many potteries around, including Homer Laughlin and our world famous Fiesta Ware.
Our front sidewalk is made of bricks from some of the local factories.
We have such abundance of history here in the Hudson valley! Great video,thanks.
I never knew about the brickmaking industry in the Hudson River Valley, nor the history and geology behind it - and I grew up only a few miles from Haverstraw. Needless to say, I'm fascinated now.
Excellent presentation, thanks for making and posting this video. The Saratoga Sandplains on the Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park were once part of Glacial Lake Albany. We talk about GLC in our outdoor activities regularly to visitors to the Preserve (I’m a volunteer and trail steward).
I had made a comment on one of Shawn Willsey’s geology videos that I didn’t know that eastern geology was very interesting (and I went to Syracuse University), compared to where I live, near an active volcano in Mammoth, CA. Someone suggest I check you out. And here I am, fully subscribed. Hopefully, you have done something about the Finger Lakes. 😃
Just found this channel recently. Good vid! Interesting combination of highlighting the natural processes as well as human activity for a complete picture.
thanks so much, glad you're here
Your videos are so well researched, intriguing, and professional. You should have a LOT more likes. I love them. Thank you for taking the time to record these.
No she's just talking fictional stories no truth
I love these videos on how something that we as humans look at almost everyday could have such a cool geologic background.
thank you!! this topic is endlessly fascinating to me
I was very glad to come across this video. I lived for a while very near to Brockway, one of the old abandoned brick works in Beacon NY, and spent many hours exploring its ruins and imagining what it was like back in its heyday. It's nice to see the geological aspect of this important but nearly forgotten part of American history brought to light so well.
Awesome video, thank you! I was blown away over a decade ago when I learned about how the collapse of that sediment dam shaped the landscape of New York City, but I never knew about this connection to the bricks the city is built with. I might have to visit Haverstrraw!
This was fantastic. I live in Brooklyn, and I love looking at all the beautiful brick buildings around the borough. During the heyday of NY bricklaying, they were really great about incorporating variations in patterns, colors, etc. to make interesting facades. You can always tell a newer brick building by its tragic uniformity.
I had heard that the bricks mostly came from upstate, but I didn't know they were connected to glacial Lake Albany! Thanks for a wonderful video.
I live and grew up near an abandoned brick yard in St. Paul MN, the clay of which was laid down by glacial Lake Agassiz. I'm told it was closed in the early 70s but by the time I was exploring it in the 90s it was just ruins. These days its so overgrown that you can hardly tell there was any extraction going on if you don't know what to look for.
i think it's super important to communicate how connected our human civilization is to the land around us. thank you for putting in the time and energy to make and share this amazing video!
I agree, thank you so much for watching and for your kind words!
Brilliant video. I've lived in the Hudson valley for a long time and I never knew a lot of this!
When I went to Albany State (SUNY-Albany) a professor told us that the campus was originally designed for a tropical area (Hawaii?) intended to pick up breezes for cooling. When they used the design for SUNY-Albany instead, placing it on an ancient lake bed, it created wind tunnels. Winter could be brutal on campus . . .
Very educational. I like the way you use animations and graphics to help explain concepts. Well done and you are professional with the way you compose the information in an easy to understand and flow able way. Thoroughly enjoyed the video and learned a lot, thanks.
Delightful video. I was just in NYC last week. I was imagining those buildings facing the next ice age and the last glacial maximum
You must be super busy. Or in love. Hope you’re still learning, like with a Ph.D. in geology. Hope you’re teaching, like as a TA, RA, or other instructor. Hope you’re well! Your intelligence, dynamism, and creativity will be a gift to whatever sphere of life you choose. But give us a shout-out some time. Blessings.
Hi, Becky - good to see a longer vid. 😊
Hope you are doing well. 👍
Finally a new vidd!!! I got a passion for geology ignited by videos like yours and I'm thinking of taking it as a uni career (dk if my english makes sense, I'm from spain xd)
Love your content♥♥♥
that's awesome to hear!! I am so glad I chose geology to study in college, I hope you find it as wonderful as I did/do
@@Geobeck Thankss!! Do you have any advice on how to approach the career and some books to get started on basic geo?
Such great storytelling every time. I appreciate the energy you put into these awesome videos!
This was fun, subscribed and thanks for the insights
This video was really fun to watch, thanks for making it!
really fascinating video! esp so as a new yorker. glad the algorithm pointed me in your direction
I’ve always associated upstate New York with bricks. There are a lot of towns that have old, bright red brick sidewalks with bright green moss growing between them.
Nice videos. Have you considered doing one for Rosendale natural hydraulic cement? It was mined during the 1800's from a layer of dolostone that was especially thick from Kingston, NY to areas just south of Rosendale, NY. The hills in those areas are hollow. That dolostone layer was mined around in Fayetteville, NY and Cobelskill, NY too. During the peak of the industry tourists from NYC would take midnight train rides near Rosendale to marvel at the red glow in the sky, which was caused by the several hundred kilns burning. The cement in the old coastal forts, the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty's base, and innumerable more structures were made using Rosendale cement. How that layer of stone formed, and why it's thickest in Rosendale is a story that shaped the lives of everyone who is affected by the Rosendale natural hydraulic cement industry.
As a native New Yorker (Brooklyn) AND a geologist, I always appreciate learning about how geology influenced history and human endeavors. GREAT video!
Pretty cool video. Learned a lot of new stuff from it. Thanks!
Fascinating topic - thanks for creating the video!
This was a cool field project. Thanks for showing all different evidence for glaciation and how it relates to modern life.
Just my opinion, this style of video better suits your personality. Gotta get out into the field and talk about what you’re passionate about.
Very interesting and very well done!
First: Thank you so much for the brick review. Wow! Second: Thank you for a focus on Glaciers and the "most recent period" of Glaciation. Third: A note about Albany Slip Clay (Hudson River) now all used up; so sad; Fire Clay (Pine Lakes) not the same; also so sad. Fourth: There is the younger Dryas Cooling period, pretty well dated 12,900 years ago. Those comets hitting the ice sheet and all that Ice into Space ~ to Impact Basins. Ya know in Nebraska and North Carolina (Bays 😜). Fifth: The "scrape channels". on Kelly's Island (Lake Erie) NOT a scrape but UNDER ICE rivers. The scrape channels that everyone talks about as "glacial" is really erosion via a water and ice mix under ice. ~Untill 12,900 years ago~ see above. And yea. Around the White Mountains anywhere in New Hampshire / New England there are scrape marks in Granite. You mention NYC. ~ yep ~. And so ~~~ Thanks for this post! ~ Mr Not Worthy from New Hampshire.
I have not seen it in person, but there is a diorama in the State Museum of the oldest known site in NY where people left evidence. It is in W. Athol, on a hillside, where they left flint chips from making tools. They estimate it was 12,000 years ago. You may want to check that out. If you do, I would love to see it.
Awesome piece!
this blew my mind
Awesome video!
Excellent video!
If you go north of Hudson. Stuyvesant has a really kool hike that brings up down to a old brick yard they are all along 9j from Stockport to Shodack landing . Also in Stuyvesant is a old ice house next to the hudson river with a old building .
that's awesome ill definitely have to check it out - so many pieces of the brick industry's history all over the HV
Interesting. Well done! Thank you!
This dude bricks!
this is great, thank you!
3:15 the Vanderbilt Mansion
Thanks 😊 you made bricks interesting.. no easy task!
So very interesting. Thank you.
It’s so crazy how I found this video and I clicked it because I was looking into gold mining and I found out that sheet of ice brought gold into New York from Canada I believe and I clicked on your video out of curiosity and I end up seeing you come to my child neighborhood my mom lives in Haverstraw if you would’ve went to broadway around the corner there’s a pathway n the outside of Haverstraw there was a landslide and people died during that time those bricks were made Haverstraw also was named brick town on my page i have music videos I made all over Haverstraw not that it matters I came here to tell you I find your videos dope keep making them I subscribed n will support take care
Been watching your videos since your early posts, and they are great. You deserve so many more views! I am biased in this subject in that my own youngest daughter is also a geologist who goes by her middle name of Becca, by coincidence, and lives over the border in VT - hah hah. Really like your unique perspective on how geology influences how we've built our modern infrastructure - very fascinating.
Entertaining and educational, thanks from a new subscribers.
You are getting a ton of positive feedback. Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming. By the way, did you ever notice that all the towns and cities along the Hudson were built where the embankment is low and there is easy access to the rive? Just one more way geology has affected man.
Brilliant as always! Yes, Clay is thick - and getting thicker every year god help me. Where was that in Hudson? What (text?) book were you reviewing. Good production work as well.
Thank you! In Hudson I was at Greenport Conservation Area, which is actually the site of another old brickyard - and the book is an old earth science book called The Planet Earth from the World Book Encyclopedia of Science, printed in 1989
We hired Henry Hudson to find a passage to Asia. First he went to the east and later turned to the west. The rest is your history.
Great thanks
I'm so glad you are back Beck! Not only are you cute as a button, you are smart and delivering information that I am EXTREMELY interested in. I have lived in the Hudson Valley for decades and have had an interest in it's geology, however I never pursued it much. I had a general idea, but not specific knowledge. You are filling in my gaps. It is about time, since I am 74. By the way, I put two and two together and surmised that the rolling hills/ridges seen in the field north of the Vanderbilt Mansion, looking down, were caused when an ice dam broke. creating huge rapids, similar to those that created the Scablands out west. I also surmised that the ancient shoreline of the Hudson came up near the level of the land the Mansion sits on. It was a far different landscape, being much like N. Canada today. By the way, the earliest evidence of man in NY is at W. Athol, whee they found flakes of flint where they were making tools approx. 12K years ago. So, it is doubtful that Glacial Lake Albany was there at that time. By then, there was probably a pine forest. At least in that area. Also, some years ago, the bones of a Mastedon? were found in Hyde Park. They believe it got stuck in a bog and couldn't get out. That may have been about 10K years ago.
thanks so much, that's wonderful to hear
and yes! That is Vanderbilt!
Very looking beautiful vidio ❤
If youre ever down in texas, the city of ferris has a brick festival. They also claim to have once been the brick making capital of the world lol.
Im not sure where the clay in north texas comes from.
This was a great video. Thank you for making it.
Texas always claims to be the biggest and best-like trump and full of fraud.
I visited a brickyard near Ravena about 17 years ago as a part of a documentary photography class… 👴🏻😸😅
Let's not forget, you wouldn't have any river, ice or clay particles at all without the hydrologic cycle. The Hudson River has a source, namely, one or more holes in the ground up around the Adirondacks where water issues forth. If it's cold out, not as much will happen because the water coming to the surface will freeze. When the weather warms, the water flows instead of freezing. The Earth has a whole lot of water underneath the surface. It's known as primary water. It is replenished through the creation of water vapor in the atmosphere, and enters the tables osmotically. As for the dates of all this happening, remember that the radiocarbon clock needs a checkup....
Nice video!! You ever dig Herkimer diamonds?!
For some stupid reason your videos stopped being added to my recommended by Google, BOOO! I'm glad to have returned to your channel so I can see your videos which have improved so much. I love it! As you were speaking about the beach of bricks, I couldn't help but wonder if entropy is real. A beach of clay became a beach of bricks.....hmmmm
oh no! I also didn't upload to RUclips for a while so that's another reason you may not have been seeing me here. If you ever want to watch more of my videos I'm much more active on a daily basis on Instagram - thanks so much for watching!
Why wasn’t this shown to me in High school. This is epic
Brick! House!
time to look at bricks and see where they came from 😁
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Can you tell me how they know how thick the glaciers were over the Catskills and Hudson Highlands. I have heard 1-2 miles. How do they know that. Second, when did the glaciers start to melt and when was the melting complete in New York?
They know by the structure of the rocks the glacier sat on. The pressure of two miles of solid ice is mind boggling. Pressure changes the rocks. Today’s geologists have been systematically studying all this for over a hundred years now. I grant that some of their findings are “unbelievable.” But they are scientists. They don’t make stuff up. Hearing lectures from many of them, I’ve been struck by how many times they say “We just don’t know about . . . .” They are honest, brilliant scientists. Our earth is a marvel. Amazing that some find the facts about our glorious planet hard to believe. And the last furtherest advance of the huge glacier was 13,000 years ago when it started to melt and creep north. Don’t know when it exited New York. Some geologist knows.
Snap w/ your middle finger or even the ring. Doesn't work w/ pointer for anybody (over-exaggeration).
Lick one finger like to turn a page. Also, the sound is from the middle striking the palm. The thumb is in the way and you press hard (squeeze), then let them pass. Visualize a tiny plastic ball you are trying to crush, then move your thumb up while still squeezing. Speed is somewhat of a factor. Should be hard enough to make your fingers numb if you did it 30-40 times.
I can flick coins that way too, they sing through the air, break things and bruise.
The coin mention is a note of the force involved.
Wondering:
Let's assume there hadn't been a decline of the brick industry, how many years would it have taken to use up all that clay deposited by Lake Albany? Dozens, hundreds, thousands?
And btw I felt relieved when I saw you actually made muffins and didn't put clay in your blender! 😅
Nice 🇮🇳🙏
❤....youre....lovely.
Never met someone who can't snap their fingers. Surely you can learn the technique for it?
honestly sometimes i can sometimes i cant, i think maybe it was because I was cold here? hahah
@@Geobeck incoming finger snapping training arc in the cold 😤😤
Really? I’ve met a good few
What was that? The 1860's? Brick making for the world?
We first saw bricks being made by the Romans although the famous beakers of the Beaker people here were of fired clay around 3,000 BCE ceramics are first found in the late palaeolithic around 28,000 BCE
After the Romans left brick making stopped in the UK until the monks at Coggeshall Abbey circa 1190 restarted it.
Early bricks had no frog, then they had a rim to hold the mortar. Frogs came much later.
Also, bricks are cheap & heavy. Exactly the qualities that would stop countries shipping bricks around the globe.
We used to bring in Flemish bricks around the 13th century but that was because they had snob value, weren't as rough ss ours but even though the Netherlands/ Belgium are just a stone's throw from the UK it made them very expensive!
So I doubt you guys were "Brick makers for the world." in 1860. Which was 104 years before I was born, so about last week in historical terms.
Perhaps you meant brick makers for America? I know a lot of Americans think that their little corner of the globe is the world but you're only 5% of the world's population.
Didn't you build a railway around the 1860s? That could've transported bricks but it would still make them expensive at a distance making it way more profitable to make brickworks locally.
Hoe a lake built a city? Little off there aren't we?
I dont believe none of it
Your channel should be doing better
This was school project. You have gaylord.