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Coastal landforms in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts coastline is deeply indented with bays, coves, and estuaries, separated by narrow promontories. Some of these form natural harbors that gave rise to the state's historic ports, including Newburyport, Gloucester, Salem, Boston, and New Bedford.
Landforms of Massachusetts by county (16 C) B. Beaches of Massachusetts (43 P) Bodies of water of Massachusetts (10 C, 5 P) C. Caves of Massachusetts (2 P) H.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Acushnet Cedar Swamp: June 1972 New Bedford. Bristol: state One of the state's largest, wildest and most impenetrable swamps, and an outstanding example of the diversity of conditions and species in the glaciated section of the oak-chestnut forest.
The geology of Massachusetts includes numerous units of volcanic, intrusive igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks formed within the last 1.2 billion years. The oldest formations are gneiss rocks in the Berkshires , which were metamorphosed from older rocks during the Proterozoic Grenville orogeny as the proto-North American continent ...
Landforms of Dukes County, Massachusetts (3 C, 3 P) E. Landforms of Essex County, Massachusetts (2 C, 11 P) F. Landforms of Franklin County, Massachusetts (3 C, 8 P) H.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km 2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) [1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
The Bureau of State Parks and Recreation division of Department of Conservation and Recreation (Massachusetts) (DCR) is responsible for the maintenance and management of over 450,000 acres (1,820 sq km) of privately and state-owned forests and parks, nearly 10% of the Commonwealth's total land mass. Within the lands managed by the Bureau of ...