scholarly journals CASE HISTORY OF THE CAPE COD CANAL

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
John E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Case History ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
Narrow Neck ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Northern New England

No more interesting or appealing subject than the Cape Cod Canal could be assigned to one who is engaged in the study and development of navigation in New England. This sea-level canal, located 50 miles south of Boston at the narrow neck of land joining Cape Cod to the mainland, principally serves coastwise shipping to and from Boston and Northern New England. While it was only completed in 1940 no one should entertain the thought that it is of recent origin.

A Building History of Northern New England

APT Bulletin ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Robert A. Young ◽  
James L. Garvin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern New England

A Comment on Snow's “Rising Sea Level and Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northern New England”

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Newman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Northern New England ◽  
Rising Sea Level

AbstractSnow's thesis that shellfish were not eaten by archaic peoples of North America until A.D. 1 is questioned.

A Life in History: Making the Team

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Reid
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern New England

This article traces the author’s path from early life in the United Kingdom to graduate school in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and then to a series of faculty positions – ultimately, at Saint Mary’s University. Early work in the seventeenth-century history of northern New England gave way to a more broadly comparative approach to this era and, eventually, to an effort to coordinate imperial, colonial, and Indigenous history in northeastern North America. A variety of career uncertainties and evolutions also led to involvement in the history of higher education, the history of Atlantic Canada, and the history of sport. Through it all, collaborative work developed as a recurrent approach, with Atlantic Canada themes frequently underpinning responses to a variety of historiographies.

A Building History of Northern New England James L. Garvin

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-111
Author(s):  
Claire W. Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern New England

Assessing the role of orogen-parallel faulting in post-orogenic exhumation: low-temperature thermochronology across the Norumbega Fault System, Maine

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. West ◽  
Mary K. Roden-Tice ◽  
Jaime K. Potter ◽  
Nellie Q. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
New England ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
South Central ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern New England ◽  
Restraining Bend

As a part of a regional effort to determine the extent of low-temperature thermochronological discontinuities across major orogen-parallel faults in northern New England, 41 apatite fission track (AFT) ages and 11 (U–Th)/He ages are used to constrain the ∼65 to 100 °C cooling history of rocks flanking a 160 km long segment of the Norumbega fault system in southern and south-central Maine. These data are used to evaluate the role of this structure in the late Mesozoic and younger exhumation history of the northern Appalachians. AFT ages flanking the fault system range from 159 to 95 Ma and record cooling below ∼100 °C in the late Mesozoic. (U–Th)/He ages from the same region range from 126 to 100 Ma and record cooling below ∼65 °C. Previously published AFT ages from an ∼40 km long segment of the fault system just north of Casco Bay reveal a dramatic time–temperature discontinuity across the structure and suggest kilometre-scale late Mesozoic displacement in this region. However, new AFT and (U–Th)/He ages along the strike of the Norumbega fault system to the northeast and southwest of this discontinuity show no significant differences in late Mesozoic cooling and suggest no significant displacements occurred along these portions of the fault system during this time. Collectively the data suggest differential late Mesozoic reactivation of the Norumbega fault system with the reactivation localized in areas that had previously experienced episodes of vertical displacement in the late Paleozoic (i.e., the “Casco Bay restraining bend”).

MICROSEISMS IN NEW ENGLAND—CASE HISTORY OF A STORM

Geophysics ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Don Leet
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Case History ◽  
Rayleigh Waves ◽  
Cold Front ◽  
Meteorological Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Seismograph Station ◽  
Better Than

A microseismic storm recorded at the Harvard Seismograph Station November 14–16, 1945 is analyzed. Associated meteorological conditions are described. Rayleigh waves and Q‐waves are identified. Rayleigh waves are used to determine the direction of approach of the microseisms. It is found that the microseisms did not radiate from the center of the barometric low and that at the height of the storm they approached the station from several directions. The position of the cold front associated with the storm correlated better than that of the barometric low with the directions from which microseisms were observed.

William Bradford

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Read
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

Students of William Bradford (b. 1590–d. 1657) approach his career from two main standpoints that are closely related but that lead in rather different directions in terms of the existing scholarship. First, there is Bradford the historical personage, the governor of Plymouth Colony for two separate periods of a dozen years (1621–1633 and 1645–1657) and for several shorter terms in between, thus an important figure in the early British colonization of North America as well as in the myth of national founding that developed after the American War of Independence. Second, there is Bradford the writer, the author of the most important and best-known document to emerge from New England during the first phase of settlement, Of Plymouth Plantation. This manuscript was largely out of view for approximately 200 years—in private hands after Bradford’s death and through the 18th century, presumed lost during the American War of Independence, finally located in the bishop of London’s library in 1855, first printed in 1856, and returned to the United States only in 1897—so in many respects Bradford’s history of Plymouth belongs to the modern age. The text is divided between a fairly short First Book that is organized into chapters and offers an eloquent and coherent narrative of the early history of the Pilgrims up to the arrival on Cape Cod and a lengthy Second Book, divided into annals that chronicle Plymouth Colony’s activities from 1621 through 1646. Obviously, Bradford’s manuscript is the essential primary source for the history of the Pilgrims’ colonial enterprise, but its merits and nuances as a book have been recognized at least since its rediscovery in the 19th century, and excerpts from it have a place in the first part of every comprehensive anthology of American literature. The researcher’s line of inquiry will depend on whether the main interest is in Bradford’s contribution to literary and intellectual history or to history more broadly understood, though there remain many possible points of intersection. The aim here is to provide both the core group of materials related to Bradford and a range of resources for exploring the context of important passages, themes, and events in Of Plymouth Plantation.

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