Hudson River Hash
Sometimes, the deformation of the original sedimentary layers is so intense and so complicated that the rock ends up looking really, really chaotic. Picture sheets of office paper torn, wadded up into balls and thrown in a trash basket. Then pile more and more of these wadded balls on top of each other and squish them down with your foot. That’s a pretty good way of thinking about Hudson River Hash. Look closely, and you’ll see lots of tightly folded beds, with little or no obvious connection between them. It’s basically chaos.
The name comes from the inspiration for this piece: ride the Amtrak route from New York City to Albany, up the east side of the Hudson River, and you will be looking at intensely folded rocks like this for most of the way. (Lots of other folks see this pattern as well: it’s really common along the coast of California, for example.)
Hudson River Hash is 16 inches long by 11 inches tall.
Sometimes, the deformation of the original sedimentary layers is so intense and so complicated that the rock ends up looking really, really chaotic. Picture sheets of office paper torn, wadded up into balls and thrown in a trash basket. Then pile more and more of these wadded balls on top of each other and squish them down with your foot. That’s a pretty good way of thinking about Hudson River Hash. Look closely, and you’ll see lots of tightly folded beds, with little or no obvious connection between them. It’s basically chaos.
The name comes from the inspiration for this piece: ride the Amtrak route from New York City to Albany, up the east side of the Hudson River, and you will be looking at intensely folded rocks like this for most of the way. (Lots of other folks see this pattern as well: it’s really common along the coast of California, for example.)
Hudson River Hash is 16 inches long by 11 inches tall.
Sometimes, the deformation of the original sedimentary layers is so intense and so complicated that the rock ends up looking really, really chaotic. Picture sheets of office paper torn, wadded up into balls and thrown in a trash basket. Then pile more and more of these wadded balls on top of each other and squish them down with your foot. That’s a pretty good way of thinking about Hudson River Hash. Look closely, and you’ll see lots of tightly folded beds, with little or no obvious connection between them. It’s basically chaos.
The name comes from the inspiration for this piece: ride the Amtrak route from New York City to Albany, up the east side of the Hudson River, and you will be looking at intensely folded rocks like this for most of the way. (Lots of other folks see this pattern as well: it’s really common along the coast of California, for example.)
Hudson River Hash is 16 inches long by 11 inches tall.