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Shelburne Falls is a historic village in the towns of Shelburne and Buckland in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The village is a census-designated place (CDP) with a population of 1,731 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ]
In the village of Shelburne Falls are the "Glacial Potholes", a waterfall with many "potholes", traces of large rock activity along the Deerfield River. Shelburne lies along Massachusetts Route 2 , commonly known as the Mohawk Trail , which is the main east-west route through the northern part of Massachusetts.
Deerfield River Swimming in the Deerfield River in Shelburne Falls. Deerfield River is a river that runs for 76 miles (122 km) [1] from southern Vermont through northwestern Massachusetts to the Connecticut River. The Deerfield River was historically influential in the settlement of western Franklin County, Massachusetts, and its namesake town.
Glacial pothole in Bloomington on the St. Croix River at Interstate State Park, Wisconsin, U.S.. A giant's kettle, also known as either a giant's cauldron, moulin pothole, or glacial pothole, is a typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial meltwater stream. [1]
Prior to and during the period of European contact, the region was inhabited primarily by the Pocumtuck tribe. At the foot of Massaemett Mountain on the Deerfield River, a cataract known as Salmon Falls (now Shelburne Falls) was an important fishing site used by numerous Native American tribes including the Mohawk, the Penobscot and the ...
The first collision between 485 and 440 million years ago began with the arrival of the Shelburne Falls island arc and resulting in the Taconic orogeny mountain building event. According to James Skehan, author of Roadside Geology of Massachusetts and a leading geology researcher at Boston College, Berkshire rocks were thrusted "like an accordion."
A kettle (also known as a kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased ...
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR; French: Région des cuvettes/fondrières des prairies) is an expansive area of the northern Great Plains that contains thousands of shallow wetlands known as potholes. These potholes are the result of glacier activity in the Wisconsin glaciation, which ended about 10,000 years ago.