Surficial geology of Acadia National Park at Isle au Haut, Maine
Gerber RG. 2018. Surficial geology of Acadia National Park at Isle au Haut, Maine
From the introduction: "This monograph is a product of two years of intensive field mapping of the surficial geology in Acadia National Park (ANP or the 'Park') on Isle au Haut (IAH). The location of the Park, within the regional context, is shown on Figure 1. The field mapping was instigated by a 2016 inquiry from Rebecca Cole-Will, Chief of Resource Management of Acadia National Park, as to whether there were gravel resources within the ANP on IAH that could provide borrow for the park loop road improvements (these improvements took place over the summers of 2017 and 2018). My quick reply to Rebecca was that, although there were some gravel sources remaining (much of the resource had been mined during the construction of the park loop road in the period 1890 through 1922), most of the remaining gravel lies in environmentally sensitive areas such as adjacent to streams or wetlands, or would be in full view of the loop roads or trails, and, therefore, not suitable for development."
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gerber, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 2018-12
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Bedrock, Geology, Glacial deposits, Moraines, Topography, Wetlands