Belchertown Town

The First Volcanic Core

This is situated about 150 rods southeast of the east end of the Holyoke main sheet of trap and 2,100 feet N. 47° E. of the house of H. Moody, on the Bay road in Belchertown. It is just south of the source of a brook and within the edge of the woods, rising in a small knoll. On the north edge the contact with the sandstone is well seen, and the baking of the latter is unusually severe. The alteration has hardly begun to decrease in the width exposed - above 10 feet. The coarse red sandstone is baked into a hard, light-gray graywacke, its mica and feldspar grains having been so affected by the heat that they have been removed by later infiltration, leaving pores coated with rust. Still nearer the contact the sandstone contains many white compact masses, which are in part hollow tubes and seem to be bones of a reptile of about the same size as that found in the sandstone at Springfield. The rock is here rendered hard and impervious, and this has favored the preservation of the bones. The specimens contain lime phosphate.

The trap is fresh, very fine-grained, and shows few steam pores. Very thin, well-formed plagioclase crystals, flattened parallel to oo P o6 , and of the earlier and larger generation, are visible with the lens.

The Second Core

The second of the series of old craters or volcanic throats is exposed in a row of low knolls in the field opposite the house of J. A. Barrett, where the Bay road has just crossed the mountain toward Belchertown village and near the western line of the same township. The exposure is only about 15 rods long by 3 rods wide, with strike N. 60° E., and near at hand on all sides are abundant outcrops of conglomerate, which proves it to be an isolated deposit of limited extent. It agrees in all essentials with the rock of the newer intrusive dikes.

Mon Xxix 31 The Third Coke

This rises as a low knoll in the open field 80 rods S. 70° W. of J. A. Barrett's and 10 rods north of a bluff of tuff. It is exposed with a width of 3 rods and a length of 5 rods. Its strike is N. 60° E.

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Department of the interior | - | Monograplis | of tlie | United States geological survey | Volume XXIX | [Seal of the department] I Washington | government printing office | 1898

Second title: United States geological survey | Charles D. Waloott, director | - | Geology | of | OH Hampshire Coirnty, Massachusetts | comprising | Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties | by | Benjamin Kendall Emerson | [Vignette] |

I comprising | Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties | hy I Benjamin Kendall Emerson | [Vignette] | . Washington | government printing office | 1898

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