Word: narragansetts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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November 21. Saturday.Geological Excursion to Barrington, R. I., and the Narragansett Bay Shore, conducted by Mr. J. B. Woodworth...
...Saturday.Geological Excursion to Barrington, R. I., and the Narragansett Bay Shore, conducted by Mr. J. B. Woodworth...
...years, in that the field to be visited this year lies wholly within the New England States. The class will assemble in Cambridge on July 3, and after ten days spent in preparation for studies in the field, will proceed to Attleboro, situated in the northern part of the Narragansett coal basin. Two weeks will be spent in the examination of the country between Attleboro and Newport. From Newport the party will go to the island of Martha's Vineyard, and take up its headquarters with the Gay Head Indians. At this point the attention of the class will...
...Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side...
Geological Conference. Papers: Tepee Buttes (illustrated by lantern slides), Mr. F. P. Gulliver; The Western Boundary of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. F. C. Schrader, U. S. G. S. Geological Laboratory...