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Excerpt from New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference; Guidebook to Field Trips in the Boston Area and Vicinity: 56th Annual Meeting, October 2-4, 1964, Held at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
The Boston Basin and adjacent areas have a Wide range of geologic features. In planning the 1964 field trips of the 56th Annual Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, the Editor and Organizer Wished to offer to the large number of participants an opportunity to study features truly representative of the geology of eastern Massachusetts.
Eight field trips Will be presented for a full day on Saturday and abbreviated field trips to the same areas Will be conducted on Sunday. The interested student of Earth Science may develop for himself a representative composite picture of the geology of the Boston Basin and of the metamorphic and igneous rocks outside the Basin proper by a synthesis of information contained in this guidebook. Each field trip leader has presented a general discussion of the relation of his area of special study to the geology of the region. He has also presented a discussion of certain details of selected outcrops which have been chosen to illustrate some of the general features. Each has chosen to present the kind of road log which he considers best suited to a study of the area in question. It may be noted that two variations in stratigraphic designation are used by various authors both of which are proper usage the one approved by the u.s. Geological Survey for publications by its members and the other approved by the Committee on Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Geological Society of America.
This printed outline of the geology of the areas selected for special study by this Annual Meeting is presented with the expectation that it will benefit not only the Conference participants under the personal guidance of the Leaders but also those geologists, teachers of Earth Science, and the interested public Who, in the absence of personally guided tours by the Leaders, may wish to use the guidebook to visit and understand the geological features described herein.
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