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 it on the far left. The Holyoke Range hems the basin on the south except at the gap where the river escapes to 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
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