GSCI 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Hazard, Fault Breccia, Phragmites
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The storrs plateau formed because the crust was less dense. There is a slight incline from north to south (towards the ocean) Rivers created the valleys, then the glaciers came in. Glaciers carry till (mix of clay, mud and larger rocks) and smear it onto the landscape. Horse barn hill is longer from north to south because that is how the glacier was moving: drumlin, made of till. Till is hard to farm on but good for growing grass. The storrs brothers raised cattle using the grass, made a lot of money and started an agricultural school which later became uconn. There are lots of metamorphic and igneous rocks that make up the bedrock of connecticut: they were formed under mountains long ago. Horse barn meadow is actually a marsh at the bottom: filled with plant matter and water, peat is found in marshes (peat eventually turns into coal) Exposed bedrock that was there for a very long time.
