400 million years ago in the region of the Catskill Mountains of Pennsylvania and New York, a number of distinct river systems flowed into an ancient sea. As the rivers neared the end of their journey the systems combined to form a delta, tidal flats that separated dry land from the sea. The Catskill Delta was a transition zone, an area where swiftly moving, shallow waters dropped sediment, and an area that brimmed with simple life forms such as ferns, clams, and prehistoric rednecks. With the passing of time the landscape changed; the oceans receded and the riverbeds shifted. The abundant animal and plant life of the delta was trapped in the silty deposits of their wake, left there to fossilize and compress into sedimentary sandstone, stone composed of sand bound together by a mineral, often quartz. Today that stone is known as Bluestone.
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