- Introduction ix
- Today and Yesterday 1
- The River Works 1
- The Landscape Changes 4
- Glaciers Came 8
- Just Before the Ice Age 9
- Rivers Carried off the Everlasting Hills 11
- Before the Rivers Cut the Valleys 14
- The Mosaic of Central Massachusetts 18
- The Red Rock Basin 18
- A Dinosaur Diary 21
- Volcanoes 23
- The Original Valley 28
- Hot Springs in Central Massachusetts 30
- The Marginal Uplands 30
- The Eastern Upland 32
- Coal Swamps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island 33
- The Western Upland 34
- The Story of Central Massachusetts 38
- Interesting Places 51
- Mount Lincoln in Pelham 51
- Mount Toby 52
- The Sunderland Caves 55
- Mount Sugarloaf 56
- Turners Falls 58
- The French King Bridge 59
- Titan’s Piazza and Titan’s Pier 60
- Westfield Marble Quarry 61
- The Old Lead Mines 63
- The Dinosaur Tracks near Holyoke 66
- Fossil Fishing 68
- Calendar Beds 69
- The Holyoke Range 70
- Trips from Northampton 78
- Northampton, Amherst, Pelham 78
- Belchertown, Amherst and Northampton 82
- South Hadley, Amherst, Northampton 83
- Holyoke, Easthampton, Northampton 85
- Northampton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield 86
- Northampton, Cummington, Plainfield and South Deerfield 88
- Trips from Greenfield 91
- Mohawk Trail, Adams, Plainfield and South Deerfield 91
- Greenfield, Orange, Pelham, Amherst and Deerfield 96
- Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, North Amherst 99
- Greenfield, Turners Falls, Montague, Sunderland 100
- Trips from Springfield 102
- Springfield, Holyoke, Easthampton and Westfield 102
- Westfield to the Westfield Marble Quarry 104
- Optional Trips 105
- Mineral and Rock Collections 106
- The Minerals 107
- The Vein Minerals 107
- Minerals of Pegmatites and Igneous Rocks 109
- Minerals of Metamorphic Rocks 111
- The Minerals of Soils and Rock Decay 111
- The Minerals of Sedimentary Rocks 111
- The Rocks 112
- The Sedimentary Rocks
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