Maps, Data, Publications, and Resources
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!
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
Preliminary bedrock Geology of the Northern Portion of the Blackstone quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2008). at <http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/>
Guiding principles for use of digital technology in geologic data collection and distribution. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 46, 75 - 75 (2014).
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).
Preliminary field report on the November 13th-14th, 2011 landslide near Steam Mill Road, Deerfield, Massachusetts. Open File Report 19 (Massachusetts Geological Survey, 2011). at <http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/Products/reports/Deerfield_LS_Report_final.pdf>
Geochemistry of gneisses and amphibolites in the Uchee Belt of western Georgia and eastern Alabama; an ACRES progress report. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 32, 31 - 31 (2000).
Embracing the digital revolution; issues of concern to geological surveys. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 41, 99 - 99 (2009).
A structural framework for the Nashoba Terrane in eastern Massachusetts. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 45, 107 (2013).
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Hudson quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2005).
Preliminary fracture characterization map of the Ayer quadrangle, Massachusetts. Open-File Report (2006).
An update of geologic mapping in Massachusetts. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 36, 58 - 58 (2004).
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).
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)