The Flow of Time in the Connecticut Valley

About this eBook

Author

Meyerhoff, Howard A. (Howard Augustus), 1899-1982

Title

The flow of time in the Connecticut valley : geological imprints

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Geology -- Connecticut River Valley

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57800

Release Date

August 29, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Flow of Time IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY
2. 2.Contents
3. 3.Plates
4. 4.Figures
5. 5.Introduction
6. 6.Today and Yesterday — The River Works — The Landscape Changes — Glaciers Came — Just Before the Ice Age — Rivers Carried Off the Everlasting Hills — Before the Rivers Cut the Valleys
7. 7.The Mosaic of Central Massachusetts — The Red Rock Basin — A Dinosaur Diary — Volcanoes — The Original Valley — Hot Springs in Central Massachusetts — The Marginal Uplands — The Eastern Upland — Coal Swamps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island — The Western Upland
8. 8.The Story of Central Massachusetts
9. 9.Interesting Places — Mount Lincoln in Pelham — Mount Toby — The Sunderland Caves — Mount Sugarloaf — Turners Falls — The French King Bridge — Titan’s Piazza and Titan’s Pier — Westfield Marble Quarry — The Old Lead Mines — The Dinosaur Tracks Near Holyoke — Fossil Fishing — Calendar Beds — The Holyoke Range
10. 10.Trips from Northampton — Northampton, Amherst, Pelham — Belchertown, Amherst, and Northampton — South Hadley, Amherst, Northampton — Holyoke, Easthampton, Northampton — Northampton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield — Northampton, Cummington, Plainfield, and South Deerfield
11. 11.Trips from Greenfield — Mohawk Trail, Adams, Plainfield, and South Deerfield — Greenfield, Orange, Pelham, Amherst, and Deerfield — Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, North Amherst — Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, Sunderland
12. 12.Trips from Springfield — Springfield, Holyoke, Easthampton, and Westfield — Westfield to the Westfield Marble Quarry — Optional Trips
13. 13.Mineral and Rock Collections — THE MINERALS — The Vein Minerals — Minerals of Pegmatites and Igneous Rocks — Minerals of Metamorphic Rocks — The Minerals of Soils and Rock Decay — The Minerals of Sedimentary Rocks — THE ROCKS — The Sedimentary Rocks — The Igneous Rocks — The Dark Rocks — The Medium-Colored Rocks — The Light-Colored Rocks — The Metamorphic Rocks
14. 14.Conclusion
15. 15.Footnotes
16. 16.General Index
17. 17.Geographic Index
18. 18.Publications of THE HAMPSHIRE BOOKSHOP — MAP — PAMPHLETS — HAMPSHIRE BOOKSHOP DEFENSE PAMPHLETS
19. 19.Transcriber’s Notes

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