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The Taconic Mountains (/ təˈkɒnɪk /) are a 150-mile-long sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains lying on the eastern border of New York State and adjacent New England.
The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago (Ma) and affected most of modern-day New England. A great mountain chain formed from eastern Canada down through what is now the Piedmont of the east coast of the United States.
Located in northwest region of the state, it is part of the Taconic Mountains, a geologically distinct range from the nearby Berkshires and Green Mountains. Expansive views and a small area of sub-alpine forest characterize its upper reaches.
Both the resulting sedimentary rocks and the metamorphic and igneous rocks that formed at the roots of the mountain belt are used by geoscientists today to examine this episode of mountain-building, known as the Taconian (“Taconic”*) Orogeny.
Taconic Range, part of the Appalachian mountain system, U.S., extending southward for 150 miles (240 km) from a point southwest of Brandon, Vt., to northern Putnam county, New York. It rises to Mount Equinox (3,816 feet [1,163 m]) in Vermont and includes Mount Frissell (2,380 feet [725 m]), the
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Print Map. The Taconic Mountains extend from southwestern Vermont to northwestern Connecticut, straddling the New York border. The present mountain range formed when blocks of an ancient Taconic mountain range slid to the west over the top of younger oceanic sediments.
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Taconic Mountains (təkŏn´Ĭk), range of the Appalachian Mts., extending c.150 mi (240 km) north-south between the Green Mts. and the Hudson Valley along parts of New York's border with Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Mt. Equinox (3,816 ft/1,163 m) is the highest point.
