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NORTHEAST Geologic History

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Basic Geology and Neotectonics of the Adirondacks: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~tsattler/tectonics/adirondack/mountains.html

Deposition of the Catskill Clastic Wedge: http://www.stepahead.net/~schneller/devohist.htm

Geologic Time: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Newark Basin and Connecticut River Basin: http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/bight/newark.html

Paleomap Project: http://www.scotese.com/

USGS Information on Plate Tectonics: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eastern/tectonic.html

The Story of Plate Tectonics: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

Redfern, Ron, 1983, The Making of a Continent, Times Books: New York, New York.

Raymo, Chet and Maureen E. Raymo, 1989, Written in Stone, The Globe Pequot Press: Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

McPhee, John, 1983, In Suspect Terrain, Farrar, Straus, Giroux: New York, New York.

Bain, George W. and Howard A. Meyerhoff, 1976, The Flow of Time in the Connecticut Valley, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum: Springfield, Massachusetts.

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