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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 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 Baxter 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 Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Burnt Island and Lincoln Sill thrust faults in northern Maine South Branch Ponds Brook Seboomook Lake Lobster Lake Red Beach Granite Cobscook Bay State Park 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
Boothbay HarborBurnt Island's Glacial Erratics of the Lincoln Sill
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
Casco, NaplesThe Geology of Sebago Lake State Park
Casco, NaplesThe Geology of Sebago Lake State Park - Bulletin 11
ClintonLayered Rocks of the Waterville Formation, Central 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
Mt. Abram Twp.Geology of Mount Abraham
Moxie GoreSome Geological Features at Moxie Falls
OgunquitThe Geology of the Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine
Port ClydeMarshall Point Lighthouse and Geology, Port Clyde, Maine
ProspectThe U.S. Route 1/State Route 3 Roadcut at the Approach to the Penobscot Narrows Bridge
Red BeachRed Beach Granite
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
ThomastonThomaston Prison Quarry, Thomaston, Maine
T5 R8 WELSHaskell Rock, East Branch Penobscot River, T5 R8 WELS
T5 R9 WELSA Geological Traverse along South Branch Ponds Brook, Baxter State Park
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
Washington Plt.Bald Mountain, Washington Plantation, Maine
Winter HarborBasalt Dikes at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park
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
Baxter State ParkThe Geology of Baxter State Park and Mt. Katahdin - Bulletin 12
Various placesPillow Lavas I Have Known

Last updated on May 2, 2008