Roadside Geology of MassachusettsInformative travel companions about roadside terrain and geology with photos, diagrams, and glossary. |
Contents
EASTERN SEABOARD | 33 |
CENTRAL LOWLAND AND BRONSON HILL UPLAND | 219 |
THE BERKSHIRES | 283 |
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Avalon terrane basalt batholith Bay lobe Beach bedrock beds belt Berkshire biotite block Blue Hills boulders Bronson Hill Brook Burlington mylonite Buzzards Bay Cambrian Cape Cod Bay Clinton-Newbury fault zone conglomerate Connecticut Valley continental crystals Dedham granite Deerfield delta deposits Devonian dikes diorite dome drumlins east eastern Fall River feet feldspar folded formation formed gabbro Geological geologists Glacial Lake Glacial Lake Hitchcock glacier gneiss Gondwana granite gray Grenville gneisses Hill granite Hoosac ice sheet intruded Jurassic kame kettle Lake Hitchcock Laurentia layers magma marble margin Mass Pike Massachusetts melted meltwater Merrimack terrane miles Milford granite million years ago minerals moraine mountain building event mylonite Narragansett Basin Nashoba terrane Nashua Norfolk Basin Ordovician outcrop outwash plain pluton Pond Precambrian quarry quartz quartzite Quincy rift sand and gravel sandstone schist sedimentary rocks sediments Shelburne Falls Silurian slate spillway Stockbridge Taconic Taunton terrane thrust sheets Township Upland volcanic rocks