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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 ...
Frontage Road, Worthington Ridge Road — — SR 585: 1.25: 2.01 Route 168 in Suffield: Point Grove Road at the Massachusetts state line in Suffield: Babbs Road — — SR 597: 0.58: 0.93 Route 10 in Southington: I-84 in Southington — — — SR 598: 0.76: 1.22 Pulaski Circle in Hartford: I-91 in Hartford: Whitehead Highway — — SR 600: 0 ...
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).
Talcott Mountain of central Connecticut, with a high point of 950 feet (290 m), is a 13-mile (21 km) long trap rock mountain ridge located 6 miles (10 km) west of the city of Hartford.
It is part of the Metacomet Ridge that extends from the Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Totoket Mountain is known for its 500 ft-high (150 m) scenic cliffs, microclimate ecosystems, rare plant communities, and for Lake Gaillard , a 2.5 mi-wide (4.0 km) public ...
West Rock Ridge, located in the Connecticut municipalities of New Haven, Hamden, Woodbridge, and Bethany, is 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at its widest point.Notable peaks on the ridge include the high point, alternately called High Rock or York Mountain, est. 700 feet (213 m), at the north terminus of the ridge; the southern prominence with a summit parking lot, picnic tables, and observation area ...
Metacomet Ridge, Connecticut (2 C, 42 P) Mining in Connecticut (3 P) S. ... Pages in category "Geology of Connecticut" The following 8 pages are in this category, out ...
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]