2020 Holiday Gift Guide

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Christmas Tree Geology By Robert and Johanna Titus

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s this is the holiday issue, the theme of each article is supposed to be related to Thanksgiving or Christmas. Ours is a geology column, so you can see the conundrum, but we gave it a try. Thinking something Christmassy might lie atop area ice age features, we pondered a while then looked, in particular, at local Christmas tree farms. We were hoping to find one lying at the bottom of an old glacial lake. That led us to Lundins Tree Farm at 3552 state Highway 7, Otego.

Ice Age Origins We had a good feeling about Lundins as soon as we drove there and saw it. It lay on a platform rising above the floor of the Susquehanna River Valley, signifying ice age origins. But we needed to look at a good map to learn more.

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THE DAILY STAR e Holiday Guide 2020


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