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Maine's Bedrock Geology - Field Localities

For descriptions of field localities, click the yellow dots on the
map below or browse the table at the bottom of the page.

index map Bauneg Beg Mountain Hacker's Hill PDF Rangeley Conglomerate Big Rock, Waltham East Point Sanctuary Sentinel Mountain Sugarloaf Mt Whitecap Mountain Horse Mountain Pemaquid Point Lighthouse North Ridge Bartlett Narrows Shatter zone Little Knife Edge Lucerne granite migmatite Bold Coast Cobscook Bay State Park Monhegan Island Rockport Harbor Soldiers' Monument Gulf Hagas Birch Point Beach Mt. Pisgah Haystack Mountain Ichthyoglypts Bradbury Mountain Porter Point Preserve Sandy Point beach Coos Canyon Grindle Point Bow Trip Penobscot Narrows Bridge Roadcut Jamies Pond Ancient Fault Rocks Enchanted Cave Mount Desert Island - B38 Saddleback Mountain Two Lights & Crescent Beach Sebago Lake State Park Mt Blue State Park Gordon Falls Mount Abraham Friendship boat launch Moxie Falls Haskell Rock Mount Apatite Agassiz outcrop Allagash Falls geology Marshall Shore town park Smalls Falls Marginal Way, Ogunquit Two Lights State Park Portland Head Light Sebago Lake State Park "Striped Ledge" on Keewaydin Lake Marshall Point Lighthouse La Verna Preserve Burnt Island and Lincoln Sill thrust faults in northern Maine South Branch Ponds Brook Seboomook Lake Lobster Lake Red Beach Granite Settlement Quarry Tumbledown Mountain Bald Mountain Waterville Formation basalt dikes at Schoodic Point Augusta's Third Bridge Augusta Civic Center Mount Battie volcanics on Vinalhaven The Ovens Thomaston Prison Quarry Willard Beach Marginal Way, Ogunquit pillow lava Mosquito Mountain Quarry

TownField Localities
AuburnMount Apatite Park, Auburn, Maine
AugustaGeology near the Augusta Civic Center
AugustaGeology of Augusta's Third Bridge Access Ways
Avon, WeldThe Geology of Mount Blue State Park - Bulletin 17
Bar HarborThe Geology of Mount Desert Island: A Visitor's Guide to the Geology of Acadia National Park - Bulletin 38
Bar HarborThe Ovens, Bar Harbor
BathCivil War Soldiers' Monument, Bath, Maine
BiddefordCoastal Ledges of Kittery Formation, Granite, and Basalt, East Point Sanctuary, Biddeford Pool
Boothbay Porter Point Preserve, Boothbay
Boothbay HarborBurnt Island's Glacial Erratics of the Lincoln Sill
Bowdoin College Grant EastThe Geology of Gulf Hagas, Bowdoin College Grant East, Maine
BristolLa Verna Preserve, Bristol
BristolScenic Ledges at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
ByronA Brief Geological Review of Coos Canyon, Byron, Maine
CamdenThe Bedrock Geology of Mount Battie, Camden
Cape ElizabethThe Geology of Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth
Cape ElizabethThe Geology of the Two Lights and Crescent Beach State Parks Area, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - Bulletin 26
Cape ElizabethPortland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County
CascoHacker's Hill, Casco, Maine - 2.0 Mb pdf format
Casco, NaplesThe Geology of Sebago Lake State Park
Casco, NaplesThe Geology of Sebago Lake State Park - Bulletin 11
Castle HillThe Geology of Haystack Mountain, Castle Hill, Maine
ClintonLayered Rocks of the Waterville Formation, Central Maine
CutlerHiking the Bold Coast, Cutler, Maine
DedhamLucerne Granite, Lucerne-in-Maine
DickeyThrust Faults in Northern Maine
EdmundsThe Geology of Cobscook Bay State Park
EllsworthThe Agassiz Outcrop, Ellsworth: A National Historic Landmark
FrankfortMosquito Mountain Granite Quarry, Frankfort
FriendshipStretched Metamorphic Rocks, Friendship Boat Launch
IslesboroGrindle Point, Islesboro
KitteryAncient Fault Rocks at Fort Foster Park, Kittery
LibertyMarshall Shore Town Park, Liberty, Waldo County
Lobster Twp.Lobster Lake, Maine
Lower Enchanted Twp.Maine's Enchanted Cave
MattawamkeagGordon Falls on the Mattawamkeag River: Red Rocks and White Water
MonheganA Brief Review of the Geology of Monhegan Island
Mount DesertEarth shattering events at Mount Desert Island!
Mount DesertA Geological Tour of Bartlett Narrows and Vicinity
Mt. Abram Twp.Geology of Mount Abraham
Moxie GoreSome Geological Features at Moxie Falls
New GloucesterMigmatite in New Gloucester
North BerwickBauneg Beg Mountain Conservation Area, North Berwick, Maine (2.6Mb, PDF)
OgunquitThe Geology of the Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine
Owls HeadBirch Point Beach State Park, Owls Head, mid-coast Maine
Port ClydeMarshall Point Lighthouse and Geology, Port Clyde, Maine
PownalBradbury Mountain, Pownal
ProspectThe U.S. Route 1/State Route 3 Roadcut at the Approach to the Penobscot Narrows Bridge
RangeleyThe Rangeley Conglomerate
Red BeachRed Beach Granite
RockportRockin' around Rockport Harbor
RumfordSome Geological Features at Whitecap Mountain, Rumford, Maine
Sandy River PltA Geologic Transect along the Appalachian Trail to the Summit of Saddleback Mountain
SeboomookSeboomook Lake, Maine
South PortlandFolded Metamorphic Rocks Near Willard Beach, South Portland
Stoneham"Striped Ledge" on Keewaydin Lake
StoningtonSettlement Quarry, Stonington, Maine
ThomastonThomaston Prison Quarry, Thomaston, Maine
TopshamIchthyoglypts and other igneous animals, Topsham
T3 R10 WELSGeology of Sentinel Mountain, Baxter State Park, Maine
T5 R7 WELSSugarloaf Mountain near Shin Pond - a Classic Geological Locality
T5 R8 WELSHaskell Rock, East Branch Penobscot River, T5 R8 WELS
T5 R9 WELSA Geological Traverse along South Branch Ponds Brook, Baxter State Park
T5 R9 WELSGeology of the 'Little Knife Edge', Baxter State Park, Maine
T5 R9 WELSNorth Ridge, Traveler Mountain, Baxter State Park, Maine
T6 R8 WELS Geology of Horse Mountain, Baxter State Park, Maine
T15 R11 WELSAllagash Falls Geology
Township ESome Geological Features at Smalls Falls
Twp 6 North of WeldA Geological Tour of Tumbledown Mountain
VinalhavenAncient Volcanic Rocks on Vinalhaven Island
WalthamBig Rock - An Erratic in Waltham, Maine
Washington Plt.Bald Mountain, Washington Plantation, Maine
Winter HarborBasalt Dikes at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park
Winthrop, WayneGeology at Mt. Pisgah
YarmouthSandy Point Beach, Cousins Island, Yarmouth
RegionField Localities
Attean Twp, Holeb Twp,T5 R7 BKP WKRThe Geology of the Moose River "Bow Trip" - Northwestern Maine
Augusta, Hallowell, ManchesterGeology of Jamies Pond - Augusta, Hallowell, and Manchester, Maine
Various placesPillow Lavas I Have Known

Last updated on June 10, 2013