Author : Bradford B. VanDiver
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
An introductory chapter briefly reviews the states' geology followed by a series of road guides with the local particulars. The authors tell you what the rocks are and what they mean. Useful graphics and charts supplement the text and help you to unders
Author : Michael J. Caduto
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584653363
A comprehensive look at the geography, environment, and peoples of the land that became New Hampshire, from ancient times through the colonial era.
Author : David C. Roberts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780618164387
With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and illustrated with detailed maps and cross sections. Highway tours tell where to go to find the best examples of each kind of formation.
Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0884483703
William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Author : Peter Cristofono
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 149304205X
New England is one of the best regions in the country for rockhounds to hunt for minerals, gems, and fossils. The complex geology of the region hosts a stunning variety of material from gold-bearing placers to fossiliferous limestone; from gem-bearing pegmatites to rocks containing some of the rarest minerals on Earth. This book provides detailed directions and GPS coordinates to the best sites with valuable tips on what to tools to bring and how to conduct your search. Comprehensive lists of minerals or fossils for each site and excellent color photos will help you know what to look for and to identify what you’ve found. Information on clubs, rock shops, museums, and special attractions are provided. Written by a collector with over 35 years of experience, Rockhounding New England is the firstcomprehensive rock and mineral collecting guide to New England and a must-have for anyone interested in collecting their own minerals, gems, and fossils in the region.
Author : Jay Long
Publisher : Peter E. Randall Publisher
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931807340
Author : Charles W. Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1611681316
An up-to-date overview of Vermont's geological, natural, and land use histories, in the context of past, present, and future human interactions with the landscape
Author : Michael J. Vieira & J. North Conway
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467136123
New England is a rocky, rugged region. Its towns are marked by stone walls and its cities anchored by native granite and marble buildings. Historically significant boulders, many with Native American as well as colonial and neo-pagan origins, attract tourists from around the world. Some are formations that are complex in shape, form and significance, while others contain enigmatic messages, meanings and intriguing characteristics. Learn more about the famous sites like Plymouth Rock, the Old Man of the Mountain and the Sleeping Giant, as well as the lesser-known such as Profile Rock, Dighton Rock and Slate Rock. Authors Michael J. Vieira and J. North Conway examine the history, the legends and the people associated with forty-five notable geological wonders.
Author : Patrick J. Lynch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300264208
The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations The Connecticut River, New England's longest and most historic river, originates in northern New Hampshire and wends more than four hundred miles to Long Island Sound. It forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire and widens significantly as it makes its way through Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Connecticut River Valley is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the eastern United States, and more than two million people live in the watershed. Renowned naturalist Patrick J. Lynch offers readers an expansive guide to this majestic region with more than 750 original maps, photographs, and illustrations. Organized around environments rather than particular locations, the book includes geological overviews and descriptions of common plants and animals. Lynch also explains the landscape's environmental history as well as the effects of centuries of human interventions and the growing fallout from climate change. This indispensable guide not only brings the Connecticut River's ecology and pivotal role in American history to life but instills a deeper appreciation for the river's diverse and abundant beauty.
Author : Rebecca A. Brown
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584657651
A lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the natural and human elements that comprise the Upper Connecticut River watershed
