Guidebooks

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Guidebooks

Published guidebooks include: State Geological Survey field trips, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference [NEIGC] field trips, Geological Society of America Northeast Section field trips, and a Northeast Friends of the Pleistocene field trip. Printed copies of most guidebooks are available through the DEEP Store. The Geological Society of Connecticut has additional field trip guidebooks available.

Bloom, Arthur L., and Ellis, Charles W., Jr., 1965, Postglacial Stratigraphy and Morphology of Coastal Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 1, 10 p., 10 figs.
Orville, Philip M., ed., 1968, Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 60th Annual Meeting Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 2, 290 p., 100 figs.
Sanders, John E., 1970, Stratigraphy and Structure of the Triassic Strata of the Gaillard Graben, South-Central Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 3, 15 p., 7 figs.
Hubert, John F., Reed, Alan A., Dowdall, Wayne L., and Gilchrist, J. Michael, 1978, Guide to the Mesozoic Redbeds of Central Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 4, 129 p., 48 figs.
Joesten, Raymond, and Quarrier, Sidney, eds., 1982, Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and South Central Massachusetts, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 74th Annual Meeting, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 5, 482 p., 192 figs., 2 maps: Preliminary Bedrock Geological Map of Connecticut, John Rodgers, compiler, 1:250:000; Preliminary Quaternary geologic map of the Bristol, New Britain, Hartford South, Glastonbury, Southington, Meriden, Middletown, and Middle Haddam quadrangles, central Connecticut, Stone, J.R., Schafer, J.P., and London E.H., 1:125,000 scale.
Tracy, Robert J., ed., 1985, Guidebook For Field Trips in Connecticut and Adjacent Areas of New York and Rhode Island, New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference, 77th Annual Meeting, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 6, 588 p., 156 figs., 14 pl.
McHone, Nancy W., ed., 1995, Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Eastern Connecticut and the Hartford Basin, Geological Society of America Northeast Section, 30th Annual Meeting, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 7, 140 p., 64 figs.
McHone, Nancy W., Peterson, Mabel J., ed., 2005, Guidebook For Fieldtrips in Connecticut, New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference, 97th Annual Meeting, State Geologic and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 8, 324 p.
Thomas, Margaret A., ed., 2012, Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Geological Society of America Northeast Section, 47th Annual Meeting, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 9, 144 p., 62 figs, 2012.
Stone, Janet R., Ridge, John C., Lewis, Ralph S., DiGiacomo-Cohen, Mary L., Glacial Lake Hitchcock and the Sea. Northeast Friends of the Pleistocene, 78th Annual Reunion. State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 10, 56 p., 2015.
Moritz, Harold, Wintsch, Robert P., Devlin, WIlliam, McAleer, Ryan J., Lee, Shinae, Kim, SookJu, Yi, Keewook, 2022, Geology and Mineralogy of The Old Mine Park Area, Trumbull, Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Guidebook No. 11, 76p., 50figs., 5appx., 1pl.

Content last updated March 30, 2022

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