Guide to the geology of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park / Duane and Ruth Braun
- Author
- Braun, Duane D.
- Additional Titles
- Geology of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
- Published
- Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2016]
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 203 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Braun, Ruth (Geology instructor)
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Basic Geologic Concepts -- The Three Types of Rocks -- Igneous Rocks -- Metamorphic Rocks -- Sedimentary Rocks -- The Rock Cycle -- Formation of Planar Fractures or Joints in the Rock -- Geologic Time -- Plate Tectonics -- Erosion Processes That Shape the Landscape---Streams -- Erosion Processes That Shape the Landscape---Glaciation -- Global Glaciation Throughout Geologic Time -- How Glaciers Move and Sculpt the Landscape -- Crust Downwarp and Rebound from Ice Weight -- Deposits Left during or Just after Glaciation -- MDI Geologic History -- Geologic Events Prior to MDI Becoming a Large Volcanic Caldera -- When MDI Was a Large Volcanic Caldera -- Later Paleozoic Plate Collisions and Mesozoic Breakup -- Mesozoic and Cenozoic Stream Erosion -- Quaternary Glaciation---The Final Sculpting of the Landscape -- Self-Guided Field Trips -- Introduction -- Trip A Acadia National Park Loop Road -- A1.Cadillac Summit Road -- A2.Cadillac Summit -- A3.Frenchman Bay (Champlain Mountain) Overlook -- A4.Sand Beach -- A5.Thunder Hole -- A6.Monument Cove -- A7.Otter Cliff -- A8.Otter Point -- A9.Otter Cove Causeway -- A10.Little Hunters Beach -- A11.Jordan Pond -- Trip B Sites on the Northern and Eastern Side of MDI -- B1.Thompson Island Picnic Area -- B2.Hadley Point -- 53.Bar Harbor Shore Path -- B4.The Tarn -- B5.Hunters Beach -- B6.Seal Harbor Beach -- B7.Sargeant Drive/Somes Sound Viewpoint -- B8.Suminsby Park on Somes Sound -- B9.Eagle Lake Boat Launch -- Trip C Western Side of MDI Starting from Somesville -- C1.Echo Lake Boat Launch at Ikes Point -- C2.Echo Lake Beach -- C3.Long Pond or Great Long Pond Boat Launch -- C4.Natural Seawall---Seawall Pond Roadside Pull-Over -- C5.Seawall Picnic Area -- C6.Ship Harbor Nature Trail -- C7.Bass Harbor Head -- C8.Seal Cove Boat Landing -- C9.Pretty Marsh Picnic Area -- C10.Beech Cliff Viewpoint -- C11.Maine Granite Industry Museum -- Visualization Exercise through Time and Space #1: From When MDI Was an Erupting Volcano to the Present -- Visualization Exercise through Time and Space #2: Glacial Advance and Retreat -- References -- Selected Readings -- Index -- About the Authors.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781623170530 (pbk.)
1623170532 (pbk.) - Note
- Includes index.
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