Summary Report on the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Edmunds Unit, Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, Maine (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Summary Report on the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Edmunds Unit, Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, Maine (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice H. Pease Jr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Summary Report on the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Edmunds Unit, Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, Maine The Edmunds Unit of the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge is an area of about 10 square miles in the Eastport quadrangle, Washington County, Maine. Bedrock in the area consists chiefly of volcanic rocks of the Dennys Formation but also includes exposures on Dog and Bitch Islands of the younger Edmunds Formation. Both formations are considered Silurian in age. Numerous diabase dikes intrude both formations, and granite is exposed in the western part of the area. Pleistocene deposits of till, outwash, and marine clay blanket most of the bedrock in the mainland area of the Edmunds Unit. The volcanic rocks strike northwest with a moderate to steep dip northeast; they are strongly jointed and fractured, and large scale faulting may be present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.