Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut, by Ruth Sawyer Harvey, Ph. D
by Ruth Sawyer Harvey
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About this eBook
- Author
- Harvey, Ruth Sawyer, 1876-1977
- Title
- Drainage modifications and glaciation in the Danbury region, Connecticut
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Tom Cos and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Geology -- Connecticut
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33050
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33050
- Release Date
- July 3, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30
- 3.RUTH SAWYER HARVEY, Ph. D. — HARTFORD — Published by the State — 1920 — BULLETINS — OF THE — State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. — CATALOGUE SLIPS. — PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 47 — State Geological and Natural History Survey — HERBERT E. GREGORY, SUPERINTENDENT — BULLETIN No. 30 — Printed by the State Geological and Natural History Survey — 1920 — State Geological and Natural History Survey — COMMISSIONERS — SUPERINTENDENT
- 4.Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut — By RUTH SAWYER HARVEY, Ph. D. — Printed by the State Geological and Natural History Survey — 1920 — CONTENTS. — ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.INTRODUCTION — DRAINAGE MODIFICATIONS AND GLACIATION IN THE DANBURY REGION, CONNECTICUT
- 6.REGIONAL RELATIONS
- 7.ROCKY RIVER — DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVER AND ITS VALLEY — RELATIONS OF THE VALLEY TO GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE — JUNCTION OF ROCKY AND HOUSATONIC RIVERS — ABNORMAL PROFILE — PREGLACIAL COURSE — THE BURIED CHANNEL — EFFECT OF GLACIATION — THE NEVERSINK-DANBURY VALLEY.
- 8.STILL RIVER — STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM — EVIDENCE TO BE EXPECTED IF STILL RIVER HAS BEEN REVERSED — 1. A VALLEY WIDE THROUGHOUT OR BROADENING TOWARD THE SOUTH — 2. TRIBUTARY VALLEYS POINTING UPSTREAM — 3. REGIONAL SLOPE NOT IN ACCORD WITH COURSE OF THE STILL — 4. EVIDENCE OF GLACIAL FILLING AND DEGRADING OF THE RIVER BED — 5. GLACIAL SCOURING
- 9.THE STILL-SAUGATUCK DIVIDE — FEATURES OF THE UMPOG VALLEY — THE PREGLACIAL DIVIDE
- 10.THE STILL-CROTON DIVIDE — INTRODUCTION — FEATURES OF STILL RIVER VALLEY WEST OF DANBURY — THE STILL-CROTON VALLEY — GLACIAL LAKE KANOSHA — DIVIDES IN THE HIGHLANDS SOUTH OF DANBURY — THE ANCIENT STILL RIVER — DEPARTURES OF STILL RIVER FROM ITS PREGLACIAL CHANNEL — SUGGESTED COURSES OF HOUSATONIC RIVER
- 11.GLACIAL DEPOSITS — BEAVER BROOK SWAMP — DEPOSITS NORTHEAST OF DANBURY — DEPOSITS BETWEEN BEAVER BROOK MOUNTAIN AND MOUTH OF STILL RIVER — LAKES — HISTORY OF THE GLACIAL DEPOSITS
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