April 20, 2008
Groton Geology Field Trip
Nine members of Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation who are participants in the Fresh Pond Reading Group drove from Cambridge to the Groton home of fellow member Suzanna Black to enjoy a day of exploring glacial formations. Suzanna's friends Bob Pine, an amateur geologist (in left photo, wearing shorts), and Bob Gamlin, longtime Groton resident and landowner (green cap) led the tour. They showed us kettleholes, eskers, drumlins, glacial eratics and dramatic cliffs such as the one in the right photo, where we stopped to rest next to a beaver pond.
The trip was scheduled in anticipation of the next meeting of the Reading Group, when we will discuss Written in Stone, a book about the geology of New England written by Chet and Maureen Raymo.