Niagara Escarpment

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment or cuesta running through Ontario in Canada, New York State, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois in the United States. It is composed of the Lockport geological formation of Silurian age, and is similar to the Onondaga geological formation, which runs parallel to it and just to the south, in New York and eastern Ontario. The escarpment is most famous for and named after the cliff over which the Niagara River forms Niagara Falls.

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Escarpment - Cuesta - Ontario - New York State - Wisconsin - Michigan - Illinois - Silurian - Onondaga geological formation - Niagara River - Niagara Falls

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The Niagara Escarpment is the most prominent of several escarpments formed in the bedrock of southern Ontario. It is traceable starting in eastern New York and along a westerly direction across the Niagara River into Ontario where it stretches along the Niagara Peninsula and northerly to Georgian Bay near Collingwood, Ontario. It then turns westerly toward Owen Sound at which point it turns northerly to form the spine of the Bruce Peninsula, Manitoulin and other islands located in northern Lake Huron where it turns westerly into the Upper Peninsula of northern Michigan. It then extends southward from the area of Sault Ste. Marie into Wisconsin following the Door Peninsula and western coast of Lake Michigan, ending near Chicago.

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Georgian Bay - Collingwood, Ontario - Owen Sound - Manitoulin - Lake Huron - Upper Peninsula - Sault Ste. Marie - Door Peninsula - Lake Michigan - Chicago

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