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April 10.- Excursion to Meriden, Conn., conducted by Professor W. M. Davis. Special features: The relations of the Triassic Sandstones and Lava Beds. (Monadnock Mountain may be substituted for this excursion...
...Excursion to the Triassic Belt of Western Massachusetts, conducted by Professor B. K. Emerson, of Amherst...
...party will spend the night at the "Norwood" in Northampton. the first thing visited on Saturday will be the fossil fish beds at the foot of Mt. To by and the outcrop of quartz schist and amphibolite, these being "buried peaks," which the glacial scouring has revealed below the Triassic conglomerate. Fragments of these rocks may be traced in the conglomerate for miles southward. This is in the centre of the interesting Triassic or New Red Sandstone region, the source of the "fossil foot-marks" exhibited in the hallway of our geological laboratories. The question as to whether these...
...afternoon will be devoted to the study of the Bernardston series of Upper Devonian metamorphic rocks, and the contact of the Triassic sandstone, where it rests unconformable on the older rocks. The region is one of the most interesting, geologically, in New England, and we are especially privileged in having the opportunity to go with Professor Emerson as leader of the party, he having devoted many years to the study and geological mapping of the central portion of the state...
...intricate structure of the famous Gay Head cliffs, also to the great terminal moraine and to the encroachment of the sea upon the island. After leaving Martha's Vineyard the party will go to the last section of its work in the district of old lava beds and triassic sandstones about Meriden in the central part of Connecticutt. The party will break up on August 13. Professor Shaler will take a limited share in the work in Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard...