The flow of time in the Connecticut valley

Introduction ix Today and Yesterday 1 _The River Works_ 1 _The Landscape Changes_ 4 _Glaciers Came_ 8 _Just Before the Ice Age_ 9 _Rivers Carried off the Everlasting Hills_ 11 _...

Most deltas on the east side of the valley are pitted by numerous conical depressions. In a depression on a delta plain near Montague, an excavation, made to obtain road fill, d...

Like the valley east of the Sierras, the depression in central Massachusetts contained playa lakes and intermittent streams. Sand brought by the mountain torrents clogged the ch...

Originally the folded strata in the Taconic region were deposited in clear marine waters, where calcium carbonate accumulated rapidly. But the sediments of the same age east of...

The gently undulating New England upland stretches off to the north and east for miles. The innumerable hills which compose it integrate to form a horizontal skyline, which sugg...

A galena-bearing vein outcrops near the Whately-Williamsburg town line at the north end of the Northampton reservoir. Leyden argillite forms the walls of a fault fissure. Barite...

In the following pages only a few of the possibilities which are available to the motorist are described. And for each one chosen, the striking views and the significant geologi...

The tour takes the road right (Route 116) to Ashfield (33.0), Conway (40.2), and South Deerfield (46.6), where it turns south on Federal Highway 5, returning to Northampton (58....

Here the main highway climbs steeply from the floodplain to the top of the lake deposits. The view north shows the Holyoke Range rising above the roofs and chimneys of Holyoke....

SHALE is a thinly laminated sediment composed of microscopic quartz, feldspar, mica and kaolinite grains. Most shales in the Connecticut valley were deposited as muds in old lak...

M Maine, 15 Manhan River, 103 Martha's Vineyard, 9, 48 Memphremagog, 35, 36 Merrimack River, 6, 47 Middletown, 3, 7, 22, 23, 49 Mohawk Park, 92 Mohawk Trail, 14, 35, 91 Montague...