EVOLVING VIEWS OF AVALONIA IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND: PERSPECTIVES FROM EDIACARAN CAMBRIDGE "ARGILLITE", EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. Thompson ◽  
◽  
J.L. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

The Hub

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-181
Author(s):  
James N. Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
New England ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Regression Modeling ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts ◽  
Over Time

This is the first of two chapters (Chapters 6 and 7) that analyze fieldwork results in eastern Massachusetts. This chapter analyzes the eastern Massachusetts “Hub” region as a whole, providing a statistical overview of speakers interviewed in the Dartmouth-based fieldwork in this area. It examines the results in terms of major traditional Eastern New England dialect features, including Linear Mixed Effects regression modeling in terms of phonetic environments and social factors like age, gender, social class, and ethnicity. The chapter also plots these dialect features in terms of speakers’ birth year and other factors, showing how these features are changing over time.

An Example of the New England Iron Industry

1927 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Iron Industry ◽  
Iron Foundries ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

The iron industry in New England was nearly contemporaneous with the settlement of eastern Massachusetts, but for upwards of a hundred years it was confined to the bog ore found in marshes near Lynn and a few other places. By the time of the Revolutionary War, iron foundries were firmly established in the New England States.

Focus on Subgroups within the Hub

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-208
Author(s):  
James N. Stanford
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New England ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Black African ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

This is the second of two chapters (Chapters 6 and 7) that analyze the Dartmouth-based fieldwork data in eastern Massachusetts. This chapter “zooms in” to focus on particular subgroups within the Hub data set. First, the chapter provides statistical and graphical comparisons of traditional New England dialect features by contrasting two nearby groups: White speakers in the traditional working-class South Boston neighborhood, and Black/African American speakers in nearby Dorchester, Hyde Park, and other neighborhoods. The chapter concludes with a fieldwork project in Cape Cod. In each case, the chapter provides detailed plots of dialect features and statistical analyses with respect to age, gender, social class, ethnicity, and other factors

scholarly journals Comparison of Density and Area Models for Anticipating Urban Growth in Eastern Massachusetts

1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-262
Author(s):  
Clayton W. Ogg ◽  
John W. Green
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New England ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Permanent Change ◽  
Residential Land Use ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Professional Study ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

Growth in residential land use is a relatively visible and permanent change taking place in communities across Massachusetts and in many parts of New England. These changes have generated considerable public concern and have been the subject of professional study by several disciplines.

A case study of the time and nature of paleomagnetic resetting in a mafic complex in New England

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 898-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Schutts ◽  
A. Brecher ◽  
P. M. Hurley ◽  
C. W. Montgomery ◽  
H. W. Krueger
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Mafic Complex ◽  
Single Block ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts ◽  
Metasomatic Event

It appears that a hydrothermal alteration and development of magnetite is largely responsible for a paleomagnetic resetting in a belt of mafic–intermediate rocks in eastern Massachusetts. The age of this thermal and metasomatic event is found to be about 370 m.y. by both geochronological and paleomagnetic evidence. This age does not coincide with the emplacement of plutons within the region (600 and 450 m.y.), nor with the 340 m.y. uplift and cooling shown by K–Ar ages on biotites.The age and tentative pole position obtained favour the hypothesis that an eastern region in New England and Maritime Canada comprised a single block in the Devonian that was separate from North America at that time, and fits the polar wanderpath of North Africa.

The New England earthquake of January 7, 1925

1924 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
William W. Porter
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Maximum Intensity ◽  
Epicentral Area ◽  
Disturbed Area ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts ◽  
Earthquake Area

Summary An earthquake occurred on the morning of January 7, 1925. It was felt in eastern Massachusetts, and adjacent parts of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine. Distance from Harvard seismograph forty-five kilometers. Epicentral area thought to be near Cape Ann. Not felt at sea. Closely related to an earthquake area in northeast Massachusetts. Radius of periphery of disturbed area from epicentral area,—maximum seventy-five miles, minimum fifty miles. Maximum intensity barely V, Rossi-Forel Scale.

Paleomagnetic investigations in igneous–metamorphic rock units in eastern New England

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 1248-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Hurley ◽  
C. K. Shearer
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Metamorphic Rock ◽  
Potential Usefulness ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Mafic Rocks ◽  
Grade Metamorphism ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Metamorphic Terrain ◽  
Paleomagnetic Poles ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

A clustering of paleomagnetic poles for rock units of mid-Paleozoic (ca. 400 Ma) age in eastern New England indicates that a variety of lithologic types may be used to obtain virtual geomagnetic poles (VGP's) in an igneous–metamorphic terrain. These rock types include chilled margins of basaltic dikes or narrow dikes, hydrothermal alterations such as epidote veinlets, mafic rocks reset by low-grade metamorphism, and hypabyssal igneous bodies, particularly where there is evidence of hydrothermal activity.The results suggest the approach to be followed to obtain valid VGP's in similar geological belts in the Precambrian. The remanence directions in Devonian and Mississippian rock units in eastern Massachusetts and southern and northern Maine are close to other determinations of similar age within the Maritime block, demonstrating the potential usefulness of the procedures.

Projects: Building Regional Capacity

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 536-538
Author(s):  
Peggy Kasten
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New England ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Department Heads ◽  
Education Development ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Professional Development ◽  
Development Center ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

Building Regional Capacity (BRC) is an NSF-funded professional development institute for grades 7—12 mathematics teachers, department heads, mathematics coordinators, and other present or future teacher leaders from around New England. Its chief focus is leadership in designing and delivering quality professional development. BRC was developed at the Education Development Center (EDC) and is a collaboration among EDC, the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell), and the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Mathematics Department Heads.

American English from Eastern Massachusetts

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Sprague de Camp
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American English ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The North ◽  
North Wind ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts

The following transcriptions were made from tape recordings of the speech of two natives of Greater Boston, reading ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ followed by a sentence composed to illustrate the distinctive New England distribution of low vowels. In each transcription, [aː] varies from cardinal to []; [ɑ] is about cardinal; [ɒː] varies from cardinal to ; the [o] in ‘o#x0259;, oɹ] ranges from to . Whereas [ɒː] and [oə] are kept quite distinct, as are [aː] and [ɑ], [ɑ] and [ɒː] are close together, overlap, and are not kept rigorously separate, [a] in [aɩ, aɷ] = [] or ; the first speaker uses a more advanced and the second speaker a more retracted variety. Diphthongization of [eɩ], [oɷ] is only slight, and the first element of [oɷ] is near cardinal and well-rounded. [œ] is a lightly-rounded , about like French [ə].

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