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Kathleen Lohff Anne Arundel Community College
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Father Francis Cabot Lowell founded the Lowell Mill and Boston Manufacturing Company. Lowell family responsible for helping to bring the Industrial Revolution to America
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Upheaval and Subsidence
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Denudation of older stratified rock (remain horizontal and undisturbed): Nos. 1-10 inclusive Beds slowly raised—cliffs form at successive heights: No 10 and 8 Entire region submerged Country buried under sand, gravel, and erratic blocks Re-emergence slow and gradual—ridges and terraces are interruptions Falls originate at Queenstown—uppermost limestone and shale exposed: No 7 and 8
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Courtesy Library of Congress c. 1845
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Fossil Foot Print
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Mineralogy and Geology, Plate 46
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TRILOBITE CALYMENE PLATYS SEROLIS SEPTEMCARINATA Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History—image collection Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution-- Department of Paleobiology
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JAMES HALL (1811-1898) EBENEZER EMMONS (1799-1863)
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The Recession of Niagara Falls
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VAL DI NOTO, ITALY PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY VOLUME III NIAGARA COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS C.1900
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Geology of New York (1843), Plate VI By James Hall Organic Remains of the Clinton Group
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Travels in America
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Boulders and Icebergs
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1807-1873 Studies on Glaciers preceded by the Discourse of Neuchâtel
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Charles Darwin’s Copy of Principles of Geology
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