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acid rain, 32	Avon, 19, 163	Bolton Ridge, 44
Africa, 142, 144, 146-147, 157, 169	Avon Mountain, 22	Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 120
Agassiz, Louis, 124, 137-138		Boston, 78, 129, 158
age of earth		Boston Hollow, 1
-biblical evidence, 113-116	B	Bradford, William, 8-9
-early views, 112-117		Bradley Airport, 21
-modern views, 117, 120	Bald Mountain, 44, 51	Branford, 22, 64, 87
agriculture	Baltic, 68, 99	Branford Harbor, 78
-farm abandonment, 44, 69-70, 103	Barn Island Marsh, 85, 92	brass industry, 99
-farmland loss, 3, 105-108	Barndoor Hills, 25, 163	break-up of Pangaea (see "Great
-history of, 2, 14, 17-20, 31, 35, 55-58	Barrell, Joseph, 67	Crack")
60-61, 70, 75-76, 86, 111, 145,	basalt (see traprock)	Bridgeport, 78, 167
152, 170-171	Bashful Lady Cave, 55	Bristol, 99, 101
-importance of, 2, 3, 107-108	bass, Striped, 81	Brookfield, 104
-tobacco, 14, 19, 20, 145	beaches, 83-85, 90, 92	Brooklyn, 58
American Journal of Science, 112, 123	Beacon Falls, 68	brownstone, 16, 25, 31, 33-34, 41, 43,
Amtrak, 101	Bear Mountain, 51	60, 113-115, 117-119, 121, 157-160,
anadromous fish, 81	Berkshire Mountains, 51-52	165,170-172
Ansonia, 68	Berlin Turnpike, 25	brownstone lowlands, ease of
Antarctica, 125, 146, 166	Beseck Mountain, 22	development, 100-101, 172
Appalachian Mountains, 74, 157-158,	Bethlehem, 106	Butler, Thomas, 2
160,165,170	"Big Crunch" (see continental	Byram Point, 78
Archeozoic, 119-120	collision)
arkose (see brownstone)	Blake, Eli Whitney, 32
Asia, 169	Block, Adriaen, 25	C
Aspetuck River, 66	Block Island, 82
Atlantic Ocean, 75, 78, 81, 142-143,	Bloomfield, 21, 104, 162	Cambrian, 119-120
146-147, 158, 165-166, 169	Blue Hills, 21	Cameron's Line, 48-49, 54, 58, 62-63,
automobile, effect on land use, 103-108	Bluff Point, 78	156
Avalonia, 140, 146-150, 153-156, 164-165,	Bolton Range, 44, 46-48, 58, 67, 154-155	Cameron's Line Fault, 130
171		Cameron, Eugene 48

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