Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This page was last edited on 29 October 2015, at 03:58 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Brainard Road in Hartford: Airport Road — — SR 531: 1.39: 2.24 Route 4 in Farmington: I-84 / US 6 in Farmington: South Road, Colt Highway — — SR 532: 0.44: 0.71 Route 177 in Plainville: Route 10 in Southington: Washington Street, Birch Street — — SR 533: 4.03: 6.49 US 6 / US 44 / Route 85 in Bolton: Route 30 in Vernon: Cider Mill ...
Connecticut's Eastern border fault was formed, a fault which begins in New Haven and stretches 130 miles up to Keene, New Hampshire. As a result, the land west of this fault was downset, resulting in a rift valley and causing the land to tilt an average of 15 to 25 degrees.
Connecticut sees a fairly even precipitation pattern with rainfall/snowfall spread throughout the 12 months. [8] Connecticut averages 56% of possible sunshine (higher than the U.S. national average), averaging 2,400 hours of sunshine annually. [9] On average, about one third of days in the state see some amount of precipitation each year. [8]
Charles G. "Chip" Groat [1] (born March 25, 1940, in Westfield, New York) is an American geologist.He is a professional in the earth science community with involvement in geological studies, energy and minerals resource assessment, ground-water occurrence and protection, geomorphic processes and landform evolution in desert areas, and coastal studies.
He was born in Chicago on March 1, 1902. Flint graduated from the University of Chicago in 1922 and earned his Ph.D. in geology also at the University of Chicago in 1925. He then joined Yale as a member of the faculty, becoming a full professor in 1945.
The Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet is a collection of fossil footmarks assembled between 1836 and 1865 by Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), noted American geologist, state geologist of Massachusetts, United States, and President of Amherst College. He was one of the first experts in fossil tracks. [1]
Cathole Mountain from South Mountain Frederick Law Olmsted Edwin Armstrong. Located within the towns of Meriden, Southington, and Berlin, the range, roughly horseshoe-shaped with cliff faces oriented south and west, includes, from east to west, Cathole Mountain 515 feet (157 m), South Mountain 767 feet (234 m), East Peak 976 feet (297 m), and West Peak 1,024 feet (312 m).