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 [The Dinosaur Tracks near Holyoke] 66 [Fossil Fishing] 68 [Calendar Beds] 69 [The Holyoke Range] 70 [Trips from Northampton] 78 [Northampton, Amherst, Pelham] 78 [Belchertown, Amherst and Northampton] 82 [South Hadley, Amherst, Northampton] 83 [Holyoke, Easthampton, Northampton] 85 [Northampton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield] 86 [Northampton, Cummington, Plainfield and South Deerfield] 88 [Trips from Greenfield] 91 [Mohawk Trail, Adams, Plainfield and South Deerfield] 91 [Greenfield, Orange, Pelham, Amherst and Deerfield] 96 [Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, North Amherst] 99 [Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, Sunderland] 100 [Trips from Springfield] 102 [Springfield, Holyoke, Easthampton and Westfield] 102 [Westfield to the Westfield Marble Quarry] 104 [Optional Trips] 105 [Mineral and Rock Collections] 106 [The Minerals] 107 [The Vein Minerals] 107 [Minerals of Pegmatites and Igneous Rocks] 109 [Minerals of Metamorphic Rocks] 111 [The Minerals of Soils and Rock Decay] 111 [The Minerals of Sedimentary Rocks] 111 [The Rocks] 112 [The Sedimentary Rocks] 113 [The Igneous Rocks] 114 [The Dark Rocks] 115 [The Medium-Colored Rocks] 116 [The Light-Colored Rocks] 116 [The Metamorphic Rocks] 117 [Conclusion] 120 [Indexes] 121