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Maine's Surficial Geology - Field Localities

For descriptions of field localities, click the yellow dots on the
map below or browse the table at the bottom of the page.

index map of surficial field locations Mount Desert Island Past and Present Horse Mountain La Verna preserve Settlement Quarry Bold Coast Mount Ktaadn Rockport Harbor Chimney Pond Trail Birch Point Beach Augusta glacial sediments calving embayment Sandy Point Beach Ice Age Trail Mount Desert Island - B38 Saddleback Mountain Mt Blue State Park Sebago Lake State Park Two Lights & Crescent Beach Mount Abraham Moosehead Lake Mount Apatite Agassiz outcrop Marshall Shore town park Riggsville Pothole Burnt Island glacial erratics Jailhouse Delta infilled kettle hole, Easton ice retreat, Sabattus Pond Sebago Lake State Park Presumpscot Fm, Topsham Kennebec River glacial lake varves, Dennistown Plt Daggett Rock Bald Mountain Grafton Notch State Park White Mountain National Forest Mount Katahdin Cobscook Bay State Park Tracy Corners gravel pit, Addison Sandy Point esker, Stockton Springs Androscoggin Lake delta striations natural gas pipeline trench Palmer Hill delta

Town Field Localities
Addison Tracy Corners Gravel Pit, Addison
Alfred The Jailhouse Delta, Alfred
Auburn Mount Apatite Park, Auburn, Maine
Augusta Glacial and Marine Sediments in Augusta, Maine: The Cony Street Exposure
Avon, Weld The Geology of Mount Blue State Park - Bulletin 17
Bangor Evidence for a Calving Embayment in the Penobscot River Valley, Bangor, Maine
Bar Harbor The Geology of Mount Desert Island: A Visitor's Guide to the Geology of Acadia National Park - Bulletin 38
Bar Harbor The Landscape of Mount Desert Island Past and Present
Bath Subsurface Geology of the Kennebec River
Boothbay Harbor Burnt Island's Glacial Erratics of the Lincoln Sill
BristolLa Verna Preserve, Bristol
Cape Elizabeth The Geology of the Two Lights and Crescent Beach State Parks Area, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - Bulletin 26
Casco, Naples The Geology of Sebago Lake State Park
Casco, Naples The Geology of Sebago Lake State Park - Bulletin 11
Cutler Hiking the Bold Coast, Cutler, Maine
Dennistown Plt. Glacial Lake Varves, Dennistown Plantation
Easton Infilled Kettle Hole, Easton, Aroostook County
Edmunds The Geology of Cobscook Bay State Park
Ellsworth The Agassiz Outcrop, Ellsworth: A National Historic Landmark
Georgetown The Riggsville Pothole, Georgetown Island
Grafton Glacial and Postglacial Geology of Grafton Notch State Park
Leeds, Wayne Androscoggin Lake's Outlet Delta System
Liberty Marshall Shore Town Park, Liberty, Waldo County
Mt. Abram Twp. Geology of Mount Abraham
Mt. Katahdin Twp. Alpine Glacial Features along the Chimney Pond Trail, Baxter State Park, Maine
Mt. Katahdin Twp. Mount Katahdin
Mt. Katahdin Twp. Mount Ktaadn from W. Butterfield's (Oct. 8th 1836) Near the Grand Schoodic Lake,
Owls HeadBirch Point Beach State Park, Owls Head, mid-coast Maine
Phillips Daggett Rock - Maine's Largest Glacial Erratic
Rockport Rockin' around Rockport Harbor
Sandy River Plt A Geologic Transect along the Appalachian Trail to the Summit of Saddleback Mountain
Stockton Springs The Eroding Sandy Point Esker, Stockton Springs, Maine
Stonington Settlement Quarry, Stonington, Maine
T6 R8 WELS Geology of Horse Mountain, Baxter State Park, Maine
Topsham Presumpscot Formation - The Rise and Fall of the Glacial Sea in Maine
Wales Evidence of Ice Retreat, East Shore of Sabattus Pond
Washington Plt.Bald Mountain, Washington Plantation, Maine
WhitefieldThe Palmer Hill Glacial-Marine Delta, Whitefield, Maine
YarmouthSandy Point Beach, Cousins Island, Yarmouth
Region Field Localities
Downeast Maine's Ice Age Trail
Moosehead Lake Moosehead Lake and the Tale of Two Rivers
SW Maine Pipeline to the Ice Age
Statewide Striations: the Stone Groove Truth!
Western Maine Glacial and Postglacial Geology Highlights in the White Mountain National Forest, Western Maine

Last updated on December 9, 2011