Field Notebook: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont 1921
Page 19
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July 31, 1951. Sunday. A cloudy Sunday. Reading most of the morning while the Keiths at church. Much embroilment during afternoon and evening. In the late afternoon took a little walk with Keith to see the sea of mountains to the north of Crumacrell. It is the result of the Appalachian orogeny and the erosion since. Crumacrell rests on an elevated plain between 1200-1300 feet, a plain with others below that front to the sea to the south. To the north rise the hills all out of one Hemisphere. Dr. Gerald Keith Hutton believes that the orogeny's are due to the Appalachian oro-gen-y, buts also believes that there is some late Devonian uplifts. The region about Greenfield is in the main a maul metamorphosed gneissic - a schist - intruded by much porphyritic granite. It may be that all of N.H.'s now and old eroded by early Paleozoic strata. In Maine it seems most of the state.