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The land on either side of the Connecticut River Valley is less suitable for farmlands. The eastern section holds the shallow Proto-North American Terrane while the western section contains the Iapetos and Avalonian Terranes , which still holds remnants of glacial till and lack the soft fluvial sediments so prominent in the Connecticut River ...
Cameron's Line winds southward out of New England through western Connecticut.It has been identified in western Connecticut near Ridgefield before it heads into Westchester County, New York, then the Bronx, along the East River in Manhattan, through New York Bay, Staten Island, and into New Jersey.
The forest's first five woodland acres were donated to the Connecticut State Park Commission by Andrew Clark in 1917 and were known as Mohawk Mountain Park until the 1920s. [5] In 1921, Alain C. White donated another 250 acres with the White Memorial Foundation contributing a total of more than 2,900 acres (1,200 ha) of land.
Open space preserve, agricultural preserve, and bio-reserve primarily located in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts and edging into Canaan, Connecticut. The preserve contains over 800 plant species including North America's greatest diversity of ferns. It is open to the public with hiking trails and a visitors center. Beckley Bog: May 1977
The Collinsville Formation is a geologic formation in the U.S. state of Connecticut. [1] It is a metamorphic rock formation from the Middle Ordovician epoch. [1] The U.S. Geological Survey description includes that its "most complete sequence is in Shelburne Falls dome where L.M. Hall has recognized seven mappable subdivisions.
It was first identified in 1985 as a single geologic feature consisting of trap rock by the State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. [4] A 2004 report conducted for the National Park Service extends that definition to include the entire traprock ridge from Long Island Sound to the Pocumtuck Range in Greenfield, Massachusetts. [1]
Excerpt of 1984 United States Geological Survey map, Dudleytown Road and Dudleytown Hill appears near bottom. Cornwall Bridge is at top left. Another 1984 USGS excerpt. Dudleytown is an abandoned settlement, located in a valley known as the Dark Entry Forest, in northwestern Connecticut in the United States, best known today as a ghost town ...
The Portland Formation is a geological formation in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the northeastern United States. [1] It dates back to the Early Jurassic period. [2] The formation consists mainly of sandstone laid down by a series of lakes (in the older half of the formation) and the floodplain of a river (in the younger half).