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| Boston to Buffalo, in the Footsteps of Amos Eatonand Edward Hitchcock: Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., Field Trip Guidebook T169
ISBN: 9781118667255
Platform/Publisher: WOL / American Geophysical Union
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Earth Space & Environmental Sciences; Earth Sciences;
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 169.
In 1824, Amos Eaton (1776-1842) published a "Geological Profile extending from the Atlantic to Lake Erie" in the pamphlet "A geological and agricultural survey of the district adjoining the Erie canal, in the state of New-York" (Eaton, 1824). The proftle is over four and one-half feet long (1.4 meters); it displays the geology from Boston, Mass., via Albany to Buffalo, N.Y., as Eaton understood it. The present excursion is designed to follow ap-proximately the line of that profile and to show some of the stepsby which our knowledge of that geology has evolved in the intervening 165 years.
John Rodgers is the author of Boston to Buffalo, in the Footsteps of Amos Eaton and Edward Hitchcock: Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., June 28 - July 8, 1989, Volume T169, published by Wiley. |
