Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-09
DESCRIBES EARLY GEOLOGY
 OF EASTERN CONNECT

What the early geology of this section ot the state reveals was told by Rev. Edward M Chapman of New London in an address at convocation at Connecticut college Tuesday afternoon upon Connec- ticut of Earlier Days.
 He told of the early formation of the land in the vicinity before the glacier period and said that where the pillows of rocks and wood now swept in diminish ing ranks toward the sea, was formerly plain and the present high irregularity was forced upon it not by great upheaval of a volcanic sort, but by the wearing process of grinding ice, running water and the gradual sinking of the coast.
 Our fundamental rocks are granite and gneiss and date back to Archaean or Paleozoic time. In those inconceivab1y distant days there were, quite possibly mountains of Alpine height where now we ind our pleasant eastern and western hill. A great estuary or bay swept up from the south into the interior of the state. The waters from the highlands running down into this bay left their deposits of mud and sand out of which the abundant fossil-bearing sandstones of the Portland and Middletown region were formed Then it was that thebrown-
 stone fronts which played so large part in the building of New York seventy-five years ago were made possible: for the material of them came very largely out of the sandstone quarries of ours.
 When the college chapel is built 1 hope that it will be as slightly and as beautiful as the new library; that it will have tower; and that in the tower here will be one stage or storey for ob- servation purposes. I could wish that in- | to it's solid floor there might be set mar iners compass in mosaic tuned to true | North, since of course the magnetic north changeseach year, and then around it al | a proper distance and in some inconspicu. ous and perhaps temporary way I would mark an artificial horizon with the name, and the bearings of the different bodie, of land and water that arrest the eye. Fol our landscape is not only one of singular charm; its charm is due in no smal measure to it's variety and intricacy VerJ few strangers looking from this hiIItoI have any definite idea at all what the! really see. They think that they ar, looking at Long Island and Long Islant Sound; whereas they may be gazin: squarely into Fishers Island Sound ant if the day be ever so slightly hay, ma, have no single glimpse of Long Islant itself; but only of the islands whicl 1 make sort of continuation of it's north Tern shore"
 In conclusion Dr. Chapman spoke of tn,
 obstacles to navigation like Bartlett, whose lightship can be seen from tn
 college hill top, and which thrusts it rocky shoals nearly two miles into tn
 Sound and is a moraine or collection O
 boulders which the glacier gathered ol it's side as it ground its way along rock,
 hill sides and then dropped when i
 melted. When you look, out upon Loni I Island" the speaker added, you ar
 looking at what is generally regarded a
 a terminal moraine where the glacie
 stopped spiTling it's burden of sand; whiI
 in Long Island sound you have
 drowned river, river valley that wal
 which owing to a sinking of the cost ha
 become an arm in this case highly use full and beneficial right arm of the s~s. {"