- Had there been no erosion of the Pangaean Appalachians and no rift valley to store the sediment, there would be no brownstone. Without brownstone, the Central Valley would have been just as resistant to erosion as the rest of the state and would not be a valley. Had there not been a valley, Glacial Lake Hitchcock would not have formed here. And without the lake deposits, there would have been no fertile farmland to draw the early settlers like a magnet nor matchless development land to help spawn the Keith century's urban and suburban growth.

-The Uplands would not be as difficult to get around in if the hills were not aligned predominantly in one direction, north-south. This alignment would not be so pronounced if streams and glaciation had not etched out the soft from the hard in the bedrock grain. And the bedrock grain would not be aligned had not the Upland terranes been compressed by continental collision.

-Mill dams would not plug up so many rivers had not the Uplands rock resisted the forces of erosion and made riffles and waterfalls to power the mills. This stubbornness results from the metamorphic hardening of Uplands rock. The rocks received their metamorphic temper in the forge of continental collision. And had not glaciation covered this stubborn rock with a smear of fertile drift, hilltop colonial towns would not sparkle the Uplands countryside with white church spires.

And one more.

- Connecticut has a detailed landscape, composed of many small features, which has spawned a complex history of land use. This finely carved landscape is a result of the erosion of the complex underlying bedrock. The complexity of the bedrock is a consequence of squeezing several thousand miles of the Earth's surface into only a hundred.

The tapestry's threads are indeed long and tightly interwoven.

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