References


General Geology

Clark, J. M. and Luther, D. D. Geologic map and descriptions of the Portage and Nunda quadrangles. N.Y. State Museum Bulletin No. 118, 1908

Fairchild, H. L. Geologic Story of the Genesee Valley, 1928

Payne,T.G. The Genesee Country. GuideBulletin No. 5, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1938

Ritchie, W. A. Traces of Early man in the northeast. N.Y. State Museum Bulletin No. 358, 1957

Woodruff, J. G. Geology of the Wellsville quadrangle, New York. N. Y. State Museum Bulletin No. 326, 1942

Geologic Map of New York. University of the State of New York, State Museum and Science Service, Albany, New York, 1962

Geology of New York: a short account. Educational Leaflet No. 20, New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 1966

New York State Geological Association Guidebooks:
Guidebook for Field Trips in Western New York. 28th annual meeting, NYSGA, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1956

Guidebook, Geology of Western New York. 38th annual meeting, NYSGA, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, 1966

Geology of the Cayuga Lake Basin. 31st annual meeting, NYSGA, Cornell University, 1959

Guidebook for Field Trips in the Wellsville, New York Area. 29th annual meeting, NYSGA, Wellsville, New York, 1957

The Rocks

Fisher, D. W. Correlation of the Silurian rocks of New York State (chart), New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 1959

Gillette, Tracy. The Clinton of Western New York. N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 34, Feb. 1947

Rickard, L. V. Correlation of the Devonian rocks in New York State (chart), New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 1964

Fenton, C. L. and M. A. The Rock Book, Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1940

The Fossils

Drumm, Judith. Mastodons and Mammoths-Ice Age Elephants of New York. Educational Leaflet No. 13. The State Education Department, New York State Museum and Science Service, Albany, New York 1963

Goldring, W. Handbook of Paleontology for Beginners and Amateurs. Part I, The Fossils. New York State Museum, Albany, New York

Matthews, W. H. III. Fossils --An Introduction Prehistoric Life .J. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1962

The Minerals

Ailing, H. L. "Quantitative petrography of the Genesee gorge sediments". Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 5-63, 1946

Awald, C. J. "Minerals of the Niagara frontier region." Science on the March, Vol. 38, No. 5, 1950

Connally, G. G. "Heavy minerals in the glacial drift of western New York." Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., Vol. 10, No. 5, pp 241271,1960

English, G. L. (Revision by Jensen, D. E.) Getting Acquainted with Minerals. McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. 1958

Giles, A. W. Minerals of the Niagara limestone of western New York. Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., Vol. 6, pp 57-72, 1920

Hurlbut, C. S. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy, 16th Ed. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1961

Izard, J. E. and Clemency, C. V. "X-ray study of the sedimentary pyrite of western New York." Jour. Sed. Petrology, March 1967, pp 221-225.

Jensen, D. E. "Minerals of the Lockport dolomite in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y." Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 17, pp 199-203, 1942

The Rivers and Lakes

Clune, H. W. The Genesee . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1963

Fairchild, H. L. "Genesee Valley hydrography and drainage." Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci ., Vol. 7, pp 157-188, 1935 ---- "Glacial lakes in western New York." Geol. Sec. Am. Bull . 6, pp 353-374, 1895

---- Pleistocene history of the Genesee valley . N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 118, 1908

---- "The Dansville valley and drainage history of western New York." Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci ., Vol. 6, pp 217-242, 1926

---- "The Rochester canyon and the Genesee river base levels." Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci ., Vol. 6, pp 1-55, 1919

Hough, Jack L. Geology of the Great Lakes . University of Illinois Press, 1958

Merrill, Arch. A River Ramble, Saga of the Genesee Valley . Reprinted from the Democrat and Chronicle, 1943

Von Engeln, O. D. The Finger Lakes Region, Its Origin and Nature . Cornell University Press, 1961

Glacial Geology

Fairchild, H. L. "Drumlins of central-western New York." N. Y. State Mus. Bull . 111, pp 391-443, 1907

---- Geology of the Mendon Ponds Park Area. Rochester Historical Society, Vol. 9, 1930

---- "The Geology of Irondequoit Bay." Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., Vol. 3, pp 236-239, 1906

---- "New York Moraines." Geol. Sec. Am. Bull. 43, pp 627-662, 1932


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