Chapter M

Malachite, 64
Marble, 118
Marble, Westfield, 61, 105
Maturity, 14
Meander, 3, 62
Meander scarps, 56, 57, 104
Meander scarps, Sunderland, 57
Meanders, Westfield River, 62
Microcline, 109
Microcline granite, 117
Mine, West Farms, 64
Mineral, definition, 106
Minerals, genetic classification, 107
Minerals, metamorphic, 111
Minerals, pegmatite, 109
Minerals, sedimentary, 111
Minerals, soil, 111
Minerals, vein, 63, 107
Mine shaft, 64
Miocene, 11, 14, 30, 55
Miocene lowland, 14
Monadnocks, 12 P, 55
Moraine, terminal, 8, 48
Mountain, eastern block, 19, 28
Mountain, exhumed, 48, 100
Mountain, Triassic, 21, 54
Mt. Warner rocks, 87
Muscovite, 109

N
Natural levee, 2, 3
New England landscape, 15
New England peneplain, 12 P, 15, 45, 74, 92 P
New England upland, 51, 55, 90, 94
New England upland, monadnocks, 55
Notch, 25
Notch, origin, 44, 74
Notch quarry, 84

O
Olivine, 110
Ophicalcite, 118
Orchard land, 8
Ordovician, 36, 33, 39
Ox-bow, 3
Ox-bow Lake, 4 P, 82

P
Paleozoic era, 42
Pegmatite, 28, 32, 82
Peneplain, erosional plain, 46
Peneplain, New England, 12 P, 15, 45, 74
Peridotite, 36, 38, 115
Piedmont plains, 40
Piracy by Farmington River, 47
Pitchblende, 110
Plains, lacustrine, 49
Plankton, Cambro-Ordovician, 36
Plants, Triassic, 22
Plateau-like upland, 11
Playa, 21, 22, 23, 46, 68
Pliocene, 10, 11
Pliocene uplift, 48
Providence basin, 33
Pyrite, 64, 108
Pyromorphite, 64

Q
Quarry, Westfield Marble, 61, 62
Quartz, 30, 63, 107
Quartz porphyry, 116
Quartzite, Cheshire, 93
Quartzite conglomerate, 35

R
Raindrop imprints, 22
Recession of Atlantic, Pliocene, 48
Recession of ice, 9
Red rock basin, 18
Reeds, 67
Rift movement, 43, 44
Rift, Triassic, 43, 44
Ripple-marks, 22, 69
Roches moutonnées, 4 P, 9, 10
Rock-benches, 15
Rock, definition, 106
Rock, extrusive, 32 P
Rock, history recorded, 112
Rock, igneous, 114
Rock, intrusive, 32 P
Rock, metamorphic, 117
Rock mosaic, 17
Rock, sedimentary, 113
Rock, story of igneous, 114
Rock, story of metamorphic, 117
Rock, story of sedimentary, 113
Rock varieties, 106

S
Salt crystals, casts, 67
Sand bar, 1
Sand dunes, 4
Sandstone, 71
Sandstone, Longmeadow, 83
Sandstone, "second," 85
Sandstone, Silurian, 39
"Scallops," 4, 56
Scallops, meander scarps, 56, 57
Schist, 28, 117
Schist, Conway, 95
Schist, garnetiferous, 118
Schist, Goshen, 89
Schists, volcanic, 92
Scour-channels, 1
Screes, 43
Sea, Cambrian, 36
Sea, Devonian, 35
Sea, Ordovician, 36
Sediments, Devonian, 24
Serpentine, 110, 118
Shale, 21, 22, 55, 68, 114
Shale, Chicopee, 18
Sheets, intrusive, 42, 62
Shickshock disturbance, 40
Shore, Lake Springfield, 80
Siderite, 64
Sill, 32
Silt, 3, 4, 21
Slate, 35, 36, 117
Slickensides, 66
Snowfields, Triassic, 21
Soapstone, 118
Soapstone, uses, 119
Sphalerite, 63, 108
Spodumene, 109
Springs, hot, 30
St. Lawrence drainage, 15, 47
Stock, 32
Stone fences, 9, 52, 80
Strath, 14, 15, 16, 47, 58, 92 P, 93
Striations, 9
Swales, 1, 98
Swamps, 40

T
Taconic disturbance, 40
Talc, 111
Talus, 46
Terminal moraine, 8, 49
Terraced surface, 17
Terraces, 4, 7, 49, 79, 98, 104
Terraces, floodplain, 87
Terraces, meander cut, 95
Tertiary period, 16
Till, 8, 10
Top-set beds, 8
Torbernite, 110
Tourmaline, 109
Tracks, dinosaur, 66
Trail, Holyoke Range, 84
Triassic, 42
Triassic basin, filled, 13
Tuff, 25, 36, 81, 84
Tuff, Granby, 22 P, 25, 85

U
Upland, Eastern, 32
Upland, New England, 18
Upland, Western, 32, 34
Uraninite, 110
Uranite, 110
U-shaped valley, 10