This small farm near Canaan has fields as rocky as they come. At the heart of the Uplands' rugged, often rocky character is hard, erosion- resistant metamorphic rock. The metamorphic bedrock which under- lies the Uplands formed during an ancient collision of the North American continent with Europe and Africa. The immense pressures of the collision hardened and deformed the rock, folding it into the wild swirls seen in this roadcut in Haddam.