tonic Highlands. At the village of Cornwall Bridge, the Housatonic River rejoins the northern Marble Valley, following it through Kent to Gaylordsville. There, the river cuts another gorge through a branch of the Hudson Highlands plateau, finally reaching the southern Marble Valley a little north of New Milford. But for reasons known only to the river, the Housatonic follows the southern Marble Valley for only a few miles, and then two miles south of New Milford crosses Cameron's Line out of the Northwest Highlands and into the schists and gneisses of the Southwest Hills.
The Marble Valley landscape is dimpled by many shallow basins and deep pockets. In humid climates world-wide, lime-rich rocks like marble or limestone are eroded into deep hollows and depressions, and Connecticut's Marble Valley is no exception. Many of the biggest depressions are drowned by the water table into lakes and swamps. These bodies of water, such as Twin Lakes, Wononskopomuc Lake, and
The Housatonic River flowing
through the Marble Valley in Kent.
Above the valley rise the hard
schists and gneisses of the
Housatonic Highlands. Note the
dramatic difference in land use
between the fields and buildings of
the fertile valley floor and the
thickly forested slopes of the
Highlands. |
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