Maine Geology Hikes

The Massabesic Gneiss looks like ice cream swirled with fudge because of heat and pressure from 500 million years on the surface It...

I hadn't taken into account that water has a way of exploiting a weak point.  On geologic maps, a black line with arrows on one side su...

I tend to write blog posts in the order I become interested in them.  I may include how long ago events occurred, but when you're dealin...

Last weekend my son and I foresook our weekly grocery shopping trip at the West Falmouth Hannaford.  Instead we crossed the bridge on the s...

Soon J.D. Irving Limited may be freed to start thinking about how to take 22 million tons of copper ore out of the ground in northern Maine....

It's my 20th post!  This blog post is the first of several that will highlight an outcrop that drove my interest in Maine geology.  If ...

Every middle schooler hears about Pangea.  You look at the world map and envision the ocean closing and that land before time re-forming.  A...