BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 30, pp. 597-636 December 31, i919 



POST-GLACIAL UPLIFT OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ^ 



BY HERMAN L. FAIRCHILD 



(Presented hy title before the Society December 21 , 1918) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 598 



Theoretic discussion ; criteria 599 



Character of deposits 599 



General statement 603 



Submergence phenomena 605 



1. Summit deltas 605 



2. Summit-level sandplains 607 



3. Water-laid deposits facing the sea 607 



4. Sandplains of inferior level 609 



5. Horizontal lines 610 



6. Pell-mell gravels 611 



7. Superficial clays 611 



8. Terminal moraine outwash plains 612 



9. Submergence effects on rocky hills 612 



10. Absence of fossils 613 



The maps . .' 613 



Areal description 615 



In general 615 



Connecticut Valley 615 



Flooding 615 



In Massachusetts 615 



In Connecticut 618 



Fitchburg district 619 



Upper Nashua Valley. Clinton district 620 



Boston-Wellesley-Ashland district 621 



Delta of Blackstone River 622 



Sharon-Foxboro-Wrentham plains (Dedham and Franklin sheets)... 623 



Southeastern lowlands 624 



Barnstable and Cape Cod 625 



Rhode Island 626 



Eastern Connecticut 627 



Mount Desert, Maine ^ 628 



Glacial lake plains 631 



Bibliography 632 



^ Manuscript received by tlie Secretary of the Society May 24. 1910. 

 Entered as "i'ost-Glacial Uplift of the New England Coastal llegion" in the printed 

 program. 



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