Great Day Trips to Discover the Geology of Connecticut

Great Day Trips to Discover the Geology of Connecticut by McHone, Greg. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780963018144.

This book includes a complete geologic history of Connecticut and trips to sites where fundamental concepts and principles of geology are brought to life. Includes detailed descriptions, maps, and images, this book makes for the best reference about Connecticuts geology. Explore Connecticuts amazing geology and discover how the state has been at the center of earth-shaping events for hundreds of millions of years. Travel to sites around the state that reveal how plate tectonics and continental collisions worked to assemble the supercontinent of Pangaea, where molten lava flowed through the earths surface as Pangaea later rifted apart, and where the glaciers of the last Ice Age left their marks—all within a short drive or right down the road! Learn how local rocks weave together tales of mountain building, continental rifting, erosion and sedimentation from regions with distinct geologic histories—the geological "terranes" of Connecticut. Discover rock formations that date back f