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Geologic Site of the Month

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11/19/09

Coastal Marine Geology Report

• State of Maine's Beaches - 2009

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11/13/09

Digital Shapefiles

Digital data for surficial geology maps
Portland West Portsmouth Prouts Neck Purgatory Raymond Readfield Richmond Rochester Sanford Sebago Lake Somersworth South Harpswell Southwest Harbor Speckled Mountain Standish Steep Falls Strong	Togus Pond Turner Center Vassalboro Veazie Waterboro Waterford Flat Wayne Wells Weeks Mills West Newfield West Paris West Sumner Winthrop Worthley Pond Yarmouth York Beach York Harbor

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11/12/09

Bedrock Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• The Geology of Gulf Hagas, Bowdoin College Grant East, Maine

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10/22/09

Digital Shapefiles

Digital data for surficial geology maps
Freeport Fryeburg Gardiner Gilead Gorham Gray Great East Lake Greenbush Greenwood Hermon Hiram Kennebunk Kennebunkport Kezar Falls Kittery Lake Auburn East Lake Auburn West Lewiston Limerick Limington Lisbon Falls North	Lisbon Falls South Livermore Falls Mechanic Falls Milton Minot Monmouth Mount Zircon Mousam Lake Naples North Berwick North Pownal North Sebago North Waterford North Windham Norway Old Orchard Beach Old Town Oxford Phillips Pleasant Mtn Portland East

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9/30/09

Surficial Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Alpine Glacial Features along the Chimney Pond Trail, Baxter State Park, Maine

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9/29/09

Digital Shapefiles

Digital data for surficial geology maps
Alfred Augusta Bangor Bath Bar Mills Belgrade Bethel Biddeford Biddeford Pool Bowdoinham Bridgton Brownfield Brunswick	Bryant Pond Buckfield Canton Cape Elizabeth Casco Center Lovell China Lake Cornish Cumberland Center Dover East East Stoneham Farmington Fayette

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9/3/09

Coastal Marine Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Dune Recovery at Ferry Beach, Saco: A Helping Hand

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8/6/09

Geologic Hazard - Landslide Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Norridgewock Landslide: July 9, 2009

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7/29/09

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Landslide Sites and Areas of Landslide Susceptibility Alfred Arundel Berwick Biddeford Buxton Dayton Eliot Hollis Kennebunk Kennebunkport Kittery Lebanon Limington Lyman North Berwick Saco-Old Orchard Beach Sanford South Berwick Wells-Ogunquit York

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6/24/09

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Sand and Gravel Aquifers Chemo Pond East Pittston Hopkins Pond Kenduskeag New Portland New Vineyard Pushaw Lake

Surficial Materials Chemo Pond Kenduskeag

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6/23/09

Bedrock Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Birch Point Beach State Park, Owls Head, mid-coast Maine

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Kingfield New Portland New Vineyard

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Surficial Geology Augusta Gardiner Portland West Richmond Weeks Mills

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5/11/09

Marine Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Storm and Channel Dynamics at Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, Maine

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4/21/09

Bedrock Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Geology at Mt. Pisgah, Winthrop and Wayne, Maine

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4/16/09

Mining and Quarrying in Maine

• Maine's Mineral Resources - Google Earth interactive maps

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4/9/09

Marine Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Coastal Erosion at Crescent Beach State Park, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

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4/2/09

Ground Water and Wells

• An Introduction to Ground Water Hydrology - This website contains information originally published in the first two chapters of the Ground Water Handbook for the State of Maine.

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3/4/09

Surficial Geology Field Locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Glacial and Marine Sediments in Augusta, Maine: The Cony Street Exposure

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1/30/09

Ground Water Fact Sheet (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Alkalinity: An Important Parameter in Assessing Water Chemistry

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1/29/09

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Hermon

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1/13/09

Surficial geology field locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Evidence for a Calving Embayment in the Penobscot River Valley, Bangor, Maine

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1/6/09

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Greenbush West Paris

Surficial Materials Greenbush

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1/2/09

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Surficial Geology of the Lewiston 1:100,000 Quadrangle Glacial Ice-Flow Indicators in the Lewiston 1:100,000 Quadrangle Deglaciation Features in the Lewiston 1:100,000 Quadrangle

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12/29/08

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Surficial Materials Hermon Old Town Veazie

Sand and Gravel Aquifers Bryant Pond Hay Mountain Old Town Veazie

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12/17/08

Coastal marine geology field locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Seawall and Popham Beach Dynamics, Phippsburg, Maine

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11/14/08

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Bedrock Geology Ellsworth

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11/7/08

Bedrock geology field locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• The Geology of Haystack Mountain, Castle Hill, Maine

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11/4/08

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Old Town

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10/27/08

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Mount Zircon	Sand and Gravel Aquifers Farrar Mountain
Bedrock Geology Augusta Jefferson Kittery 100K

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Surficial Geology Bethel Bryant Pond Canton Worthley Pond

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10/14/08

Bedrock geology field locality (Geologic Site of the Month)

• Ichthyoglypts and other igneous animals, Topsham

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10/9/08

Agenda and minutes of the Maine Water Resources Planning Committee

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10/6/08

Online maps - PDF files of new publications

Surficial Geology Fayette Livermore Falls Turner Center Wayne Veazie

Online maps - PDF files of revised publications

Surficial Materials Fayette Livermore Falls Mount Zircon Turner Center Wayne West Paris Worthley Pond	Sand and Gravel Aquifers Livermore Falls Turner Center Wayne West Paris
Surficial Geology Bridgton Buckfield Center Lovell Lake Auburn East Lake Auburn West Norway West Sumner Winthrop

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Last updated on November 19, 2009

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