Boston to Buffalo, in the footsteps of Amos Eaton and Edward Hitchcock ; Boston Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., June 28-July 8, 1989 : Field trip guidebook T169

About The Product Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series . In 1824, Amos Eaton (1776-1842) published a "Geological Profile extending from the Atlantic to Lake Erie" in the pamphlet "A geological and agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal, in the state of New-York" (Eaton, 1824). The proftle is over four and one-half feet long (1.4 meters); it displays the geology from Boston, Mass., via Albany to Buffalo, N.Y., as Eaton understood it. The present excursion is designed to follow ap-proximately the line of that profile and to show some of the stepsby which our knowledge of that geology has evolved in the intervening 165 years. Content: Title Page ......Page 1 Copyright ......Page 2 GENERAL INTRODUCTION......Page 5 MAPPING BOSTON: AN INFORMAL HISTORY......Page 8 STOP 1. SQUANTUM "TILLITE" BOSTON SOUTH QUADRANGLE, MASS.......Page 9 STOP 2. PONDVILLE CONGLOMERATE BLUE HILLS QUADRANGLE, MASS.; CHUTE, 1969......Page 11 STOP 3. ROXBURY CONGLOMERATE IN NEWfON NEWfON QUADRANGLE, MASS.......Page 12 STOP 4. BLOODY BLUFF FAULT ZONE CONCORD QUADRANGLE, MASS.......Page 13 STOP5. PURGATORY "STRETCHED" CONGLOMERATE NEWPORT QUADRANGLE, RHODE ISLAND.......Page 15 STOP 6. WORCESTER COAL MINE WORCESTER NORTH QUADRANGLE, MASS.......Page 17 A BRIEF SKETCH OF EDWARD HITCHCOCK 1793-1864......Page 18 THE EATONIAN ERA......Page 24 THE EATONIAN ERA......Page 25 THE DEWEY INTERLUDE......Page 26 EMMONS AND THE TACONIC CONTROVERSY......Page 27 CONCLUSIONS......Page 29 THE TACONIC CONTROVERSIES......Page 37 STOP 15. BALD MOUNTAIN, NORTH OF MIDDLE FALLS, N.Y. FORT MILLER AND SCHUYLERVILLE QUADRANGLES, N.Y.......Page 39 STOP 16. STARKS KNOB, NORTH OF SCHUYLERVILLE SCHUYLERVILLE QUADRANGLE, N.Y.......Page 41 STOP 17. SNAKE HILL ON SARATOGA LAKE QUAKER SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, N.Y.......Page 42 GEOLOGY AND THE SARATOGA CAMPAIGN OF 1777......Page 43 GEOLOGY AND THE SARATOGA CAMPAIGN OF 1777......Page 44 NEWYORK STATE TROY, NEWYORK AND THE VAN RENSSELAERS......Page 45 NEWYORK STATE TROY, NEWYORK AND THE VAN RENSSELAERS......Page 46 TROY AREA FIELD TRIP STOPS......Page 48 AMOS EATON AND EARLY NEWYORK STATE GEOLOGY......Page 50 EATON'S GEOLOGY......Page 51 STOP 21. JOHN BOYD THACHER STATE PARK ALTAMONTAND VOORHEESVILLE QUADRANGLES, N.Y.......Page 53 STOP 22. SARATOGA SPA STATE PARK SARATOGASPRINGS QUADRANGLE, N.Y.......Page 54 INTRODUCTION......Page 56 INTRODUCTION......Page 57 ERIE CANAL HISTORY......Page 58 GEOLOGY OF THE ERIE CANAL......Page 62 THE NOSES......Page 73 UTICA TO ROCHESTER......Page 75 SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER......Page 80 ROCHESTER TO NIAGARA FALLS......Page 82 NIAGARA FALLS TO OLEAN, NEWYORK......Page 90 INTRODUCTION......Page 93 REFERENCES......Page 102 REFERENCES......Page 103 About The ProductPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the __Field Trip Guidebooks Series__. In 1824, Amos Eaton (1776-1842) published a "Geological Profile extending from the Atlantic to Lake Erie" in the pamphlet "A geological and agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal, in the state of New-York" (Eaton, 1824). The proftle is over four and one-half feet long (1.4 meters); it displays the geology from Boston, Mass., via Albany to Buffalo, N.Y., as Eaton understood it. The present excursion is designed to follow ap-proximately the line of that profile and to show some of the stepsby which our knowledge of that geology has evolved in the intervening 165 years. Content: