River terraces are ubiquitous features throughout the southern New England landscape that demonstrate the role of glacio-isostatic rebound, local and regional base level changes, rock strength, climate change, and anthropogenic effects during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. This project is an analysis of fill and cut fill terraces found adjacent to the Farmington River in west-central Connecticut and the Housatonic River in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Through the use of high-resolution airborne LiDAR data, fieldwork, and an analysis of archaeological records we are mapping the distribution and heights of terraces along these rivers.
Project Support:
Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut
On to the Future Program (OTF), Geological Society of America
People Working on this Project
Amberlee Nicoulin
William Ouimet
Abstracts Related to this Project
Nicoulin, A., and Ouimet, W., River Terraces, Incision, and Post-Glacial Landscape Evolution in Southern New England: Abstract with Programs-Geological Society of America, October 2013.
Nicoulin, A., and Ouimet, W., River Terraces, Incision, and Post-Glacial Landscape Evolution in Southern New England: Abstract with Programs-Geological Society of America, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 40, March 2013.