Introduction ix
Today and Yesterday 1
_The River Works_ 1
_The Landscape Changes_ 4
_Glaciers Came_ 8
_Just Before the Ice Age_ 9
_Rivers Carried off the Everlasting Hills_ 11
_Before the Rivers Cut the Valleys_ 14
The Mosaic of Central Massachusetts 18
_The Red Rock Basin_ 18
_A Dinosaur Diary_ 21
_Volcanoes_ 23
_The Original Valley_ 28
_Hot Springs in Central Massachusetts_ 30
_The Marginal Uplands_ 30
_The Eastern Upland_ 32
_Coal Swamps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island_ 33
_The Western Upland_ 34
The Story of Central Massachusetts 38
Interesting Places 51
_Mount Lincoln in Pelham_ 51
_Mount Toby_ 52
_The Sunderland Caves_ 55
_Mount Sugarloaf_ 56
_Turners Falls_ 58
_The French King Bridge_ 59
_Titan's Piazza and Titan's Pier_ 60
_Westfield Marble Quarry_ 61
_The Old Lead Mines_ 63
_The Dinosaur Tracks near Holyoke_ 66
_Fossil Fishing_ 68
_Calendar Beds_ 69
_The Holyoke Range_ 70
Trips from Northampton 78
_Northampton, Amherst, Pelham_ 78
_Belchertown, Amherst and Northampton_ 82
_South Hadley, Amherst, Northampton_ 83
_Holyoke, Easthampton, Northampton_ 85
_Northampton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield_ 86
_Northampton, Cummington, Plainfield and South Deerfield_ 88
Trips from Greenfield 91
_Mohawk Trail, Adams, Plainfield and South Deerfield_ 91
_Greenfield, Orange, Pelham, Amherst and Deerfield_ 96
_Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, North Amherst_ 99
_Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, Sunderland_ 100
Trips from Springfield 102
_Springfield, Holyoke, Easthampton and Westfield_ 102
_Westfield to the Westfield Marble Quarry_ 104
Optional Trips 105
Mineral and Rock Collections 106
_The Minerals_ 107
_The Vein Minerals_ 107
_Minerals of Pegmatites and Igneous Rocks_ 109
_Minerals of Metamorphic Rocks_ 111
_The Minerals of Soils and Rock Decay_ 111
_The Minerals of Sedimentary Rocks_ 111
_The Rocks_ 112
_The Sedimentary Rocks_ 113
_The Igneous Rocks_ 114
_The Dark Rocks_ 115
_The Medium-Colored Rocks_ 116
_The Light-Colored Rocks_ 116
_The Metamorphic Rocks_ 117
Conclusion 120
Indexes 121