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Wawayanda Mountain
is a
ridge
in the
New York-New Jersey Highlands
region of the
Appalachian Mountains
. The
summit
lies within
Sussex County
, New Jersey.
Geography
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Wawayanda Mountain stretches over 7,500 acres (30 km
2
) of land, consisting of deciduous forest with areas of scrub-shrub and coniferous woods.
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Wawayanda Mountain and
Pochuck Mountain
to the west, form the borders of the Vernon Valley, an important farming and mining area of New Jersey drained by Pochuck Creek. Wawayanda Mountain also is a temperate rainforest, averages more than 54 inches of rain each year and receives more rainfall than anywhere else in the entire state of New Jersey due to the orographic precipitation affect.
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Appalachian Trail
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The
Appalachian Trail
runs over the top of the ridge within
Wawayanda State Park
.
Geology
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Wawayanda Mountain is part of the
Reading Prong
of the
New England Uplands
subprovince of the
New England province
of the
Appalachian Highlands
. The rocks that form Wawayanda Mountain are comprised from the same belt that make up nearby. This belt, i.e. the Reading Prong, consists of ancient crystalline
metamorphic rocks
. The New England province as a whole, along with the
Blue Ridge province
further south, are often together referred to as the
Crystalline Appalachians
. The Crystalline Appalachians extend as far north as the
Green Mountains
of
Vermont
and as far south as the
Blue Ridge Mountains
, although a portion of the belt remains below the Earth's surface through part of
Pennsylvania
. The Crystalline Appalachians are distinct from the parallel Sedimentary Appalachians which run from
Georgia
to New York. The nearby
Kittatinny Mountains
are representative of these sedimentary formations.
Wildlife
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Mammals
inhabiting Wawayanda Mountain include
black bear
and
white-tailed deer
.
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