PCT Annual Meeting

Program:  

•  Short Business Meeting
•  Round-up of 2016 Trust Activities
• Update on the Mutter Field Accessible Trail
• Feature Presentation “Holey Basalt!”   The amazing geology stories in Mt Tom and the Holyoke Range by Richard Little. The Holyoke Range extends E-W from the Amherst area and then curves southward extending completely across Connecticut. It is composed of more than 400 feet of basalt lava from the Age of Dinosaurs’ Jurassic Period. Find out about the development of this significant and interesting landscape that forms the backbone of the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts and Connecticut. You will learn about Pangea, flood basalts, dikes, sills, development of the Connecticut Valley and its dramatic topography, glacier action and Lake Hitchcock. Many interesting mysteries are solved in this program.Richard Little is Geology Prof. Emeritus, Greenfield Community College and runs tours and publishes a local geology book and 2 videos through his web site www.EarthView.rocks.