NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF MOUNT KEARSARGE, 

 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Mount Kearsarge' or Pequawket is a mountain of medium 

 height in the southern part of the White mountains of New 

 Hampshire. It is situated a few miles north of North Conway, part- 

 ly in the town of Bartlett and partly in the town of Chatham. It 

 rises 3,260 feet above the sea, and 2,700^ feet above the neigh- 

 boring valley of the Saco river ; and includes, as a spur on its 

 southwestern slope. Mount Bartlett, The latter rises 2,630 feet 

 above the sea. These two mountains cannot be separated in a 

 geological study of this mountain mass. 



The rock making up the base of these mountains is what 

 Hitchcock has called the Conway granite. On the south slope 

 of Kearsarge this granite is found up to the level of 1,300 feet ; 

 on the southwest and west slopes of Bartlett, up to 1,000 or 

 1,100 feet; on the northwest slope of Kearsarge, up to 1,800 

 feet; and on the northeast slope of Kearsarge, up to the 2,500 

 foot level.3 This granite also makes up the base of Moat moun- 

 tain, on the opposite side of the Saco river, and is found on the 

 north slope of this mountain in the course of Cedar brook up to 

 the 900 foot level. It is found, in addition, over a broad area 

 around, and is quarried in a number of places. The large quarry 

 in the side of the mountain at Redstone, three miles southeast 

 of North Conway, is in this granite. 



The Conway granite'^ is reddish in color, is coarse in crystal- 

 line texture, is without foliation or granulation, and is very mass- 

 ive, being cut by few joints either vertically or horizontally. In 

 the quarry at Redstone the distance between the joints is very 

 noticeable. The first joint from the surface, when I was there, 



' Geological section of this mountain is represented on the second sheet of the geo- 

 logical map of New Hampshire in the atlas accompanying Geology of New Hampshire. 

 'Taken from the topographic map of the U. S. Geol. Siirv. 

 3 Determined by means of an aneroid. 

 •♦Described in Geology of New Hampshire, Vol. II, p. 142. 



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