Pl. 1. The Connecticut Valley as it is seen from Mount Sugarloaf.
The western highland shows through the pine boughs at the extreme right. The eastern highland balances iton the far left. The Holyoke Range hems the basin on the south except at the gap where the river escapesto the Springfield area.
The Flow of Time
IN THE
CONNECTICUT VALLEY
Geological Imprints
by
GEORGE W. BAIN
and
HOWARD A. MEYERHOFF
The Hampshire Bookshop
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
1942
COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY THE HAMPSHIRE BOOKSHOP
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Contents
- 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
- Before the Rivers Cut the Valleys 14
- The Mosaic of Central Massachusetts 18
- The Red Rock Basin 18
- A Dinosaur Diary 21
- Volcanoes 23
- The Original Valley 28
- Hot Springs in Central Massachusetts 30
- The Marginal Uplands 30
- The Eastern Upland 32
- Coal Swamps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island 33
- The Western Upland 34
- The Story of Central Massachusetts 38
- Interesting Places 51
- Mount Lincoln in Pelham 51
- Mount Toby 52
- The Sunderland Caves 55
- Mount Sugarloaf 56
- Turners Falls 58
- The French King Bridge 59
- Titan’s Piazza and Titan’s Pier 60
- Westfield Marble Quarry 61
- The Old Lead Mines 63
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