Maps, Data, Publications, and Resources
Monazite geochronology of Proterozoic quartzites; a powerful tool for understanding reactivation of continental lithosphere in the Southwestern United States. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 34, 26 - 26 (2002).
Preliminary Bedrock Geologic Map of the area surrounding Shepley's Hill, Towns of Ayer and Devens, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2008).
Age-constraints on fabric reactivation in the Tusas Range, northern New Mexico, using electron-microprobe monazite geochronology; implications for the nature of regional approximately 1400 Ga deformation. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 34, 180 - 180 (2002).
The Nashoba Terrane: A new tectonostratigraphy and shared structural styles with the Merrimack belt in Massachusetts. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 47, 42 (2015).
Digital conversion of Peck, J.H., 1975, Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Clinton quadrangle, Worcester County, Mass., U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 75-658. Digital Conversion (2012).
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Ayer quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2006). at <http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/>
Bedrock geologic map of the Marlborough quadrangle, Massachusetts. geologic Map (2004).
A new way of looking at, and mapping, bedrock; the hydrostructural domain map of the Ayer Quadrangle, northeastern Massachusetts. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 38, 166 - 166 (2006).
Land area potentially affected by sea level rise along the Massachusetts coast. Open-File Report (2006). at <http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/>
Preliminary Bedrock Geologic Map of the Hudson 7.5' Quadrangle Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts. Open File Report (2014).
Note: This map supersedes "Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Hudson quadrangle, Massachusetts", MGS map published in 2005
Report accompanies map-- be sure to download both!
Preliminary bedrock geologic Map of the Milford quadrangle. Open-File Report (2007).
The influence of ductile structure and rheological heterogeneity on brittle structures as exhibited by Avalonian granites in southeastern Massachusetts. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40, 3 (2008).
Monazite geochronology of the Proterozoic Ortega Quartzite; documenting the extent of 1.4 Ga tectonism in the Tusas Range and beyond. New Mexico Geology 24, 59 - 59 (2002).
Bedrock geologic map of the Ayer 7.5’ quadrangle, Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts (2015). Open File Report
Guiding principles for use of digital technology in geologic data collection and distribution. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 46, 75 - 75 (2014).
Preliminary bedrock Geology of the Northern Portion of the Blackstone quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2008). at <http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/>
Monazite geochronology of the Ortega Quartzite: documenting the extent of 1.4 Ga tectonism in northern New Mexico and across the orogen. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 34, 10 - 10 (2002).
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Westford quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2009).
A Bibliography of Massachusetts Minerals 1796 - 1948. Special Department Publication (Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy, U-Mass, 1950).
Progress report of bedrock geologic mapping of the Lowell quadrangle, Massachusetts. Progress Map (2010).
Bedrock geologic map of the Ayer 7.5’ quadrangle, Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts. Open File Report
Latest Paleozoic through Mesozoic faults in north-central Massachusetts and their correlations with New Hampshire. Geological Society of America - Northeastern section (Geological Society of America, 2016). doi:10.1130/abs/2016NE-272576
Overcoming the momentum of anachronism; American geologic mapping in a twenty-first-century world. Special Paper - Geological Society of America 502, 103 - 125 (2013).
[Draft] Surficial geology of the Marlborough quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2004).
GIS and metadata forthcoming
Onshore-Offshore Surficial Geologic Map of the Newburyport East and Northern Half of the Ipswich Quadrangles, Massachusetts. Geologic Map (2010).
Note: this version has been peer reviewed, edited, and supersedes all previously published, open-file, versions of this map (2010)