Hydrology and Geology of Merrymeeting Bay including information about our research on currents in the Bay, hydropower, etc.
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Biomonitoring Retrospective: Fifteen Year Summary for Maine Rivers and Streams (web page)
Kennebec River Chapter (pdf)
Maine Bureau of Land and Water Quality
Date: 1999 - Current Study of Merrymeeting Bay
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Controls on Estuarine Morphodynamics: A Case Study on Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec
River Estuary, Maine (web page)
Abstract from paper presented at the Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting
Brad A. Knisley, et al.
Date: Nov 5-8, 2001 - Edwards Dam
- The Effects of Changing Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries: A Georgia Perspective (pdf file 1.3 MB)
Georgia Coastal Research Council
November 2002 - Evidence for late Holocene sea-level rise in New England (pdf file 615 KB)
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Flow and Biogeochemical Fluxes in the Abagadasset River, Mid-Coast Maine (web page)
Abstract from poster presented at the Geological Society of America, 40th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section
Christopher W. Proctor
Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
Date: March 14-16, 2005 - Geographic Locations of Dams (pdf file: 6.3 MB)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
May 13,2009 - Geology of Maine
Surficial Geology of Maine (pdf file: 1.1 MB)
Thompson, Woodrow B., and Borns, Harold W., Jr. (editors),
42" x 52" color map, scale 1:500,000.
Maine Geological Survey Maps.
1985
Simplified Bedrock Geology of Maine (pdf file: 1.1 MB)
Loiselle, Marc (cartographer),
11" x 17" color map, scale 1:2,000,000.
Maine Geological Survey Maps. 2002,
Simplified Surficial Geology of Maine (pdf file: 2,1 MB)
Loiselle, Marc,
11" x 17" color map., scale 1:2,000,000.
Maine Geological Survey Maps.
1968 - Geology of Merrymeeting Bay Area
Department of Conservation, Maine Geological Survey
- Bedrock
Bath 100 Quad - 2002 (pdf file: 4.8 MB)
Bath 100 Quad Report (Bulletin 42) - 2002 (pdf 19.0 MB)
Bowdoinham 24 Quad - 2006 (pdf file: 2.1 MB)
Bowdoinham 24 Quad Sidebar - 2006 (pdf file: 1.6 MB)
Bowdoinham 24 Quad Bedrock_geology_report and map - 2010 (pdf file: 17.7 MB)
Richmond 24 Quad Bedrock_geology_map - 2010 (pdf file: 14.4 MB) - Surficial
Bath 24 Quad - 2002 (pdf file: 2.3 MB)
Bowdionham 24 Quad - 2003 (pdf file: 2.4 MB)
Brunswick 24 Quad - 2001 (pdf file: 2.7 MB)
Brunswick 24 Quad sidebar - 2001 (pdf file: 2.2 MB)
Gardiner 24 Quad - 2009 (pdf file: 2.0 MB)
Gardiner 24 Quad sidebar - 2009 (pdf file: 1.3 MB)
Lisbon Falls North 24 Quad - 2003 (pdf file: 2.8 MB)
Lisbon Falls North 24 Quad sidebar - 2003 (pdf file: 1.6 MB)
Richmond 24 Quad - 2009 (pdf file: 2.6 MB)
Richmond 24 Quad sidebar - 2009 (pdf file: 1.6 MB) - Significant_sand_and_gravel_aquifers
Richmond_quadrangle - 2004 (pdf file: 4.5 MB)
Gardiner_quadrangle - 1999 (pdf file: 4.4 MB)
Brunswick_quadrangle - 1999 (pdf file: 5.6 MB) - Coastal geology Maps with Citations
Bath NE (pdf file: 1.9 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Bath NE [Bath 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-57, scale 1:24,000
Bowdoinham [Gardiner SW] (pdf file: 1.2 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Gardiner SW [Bowdoinham 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-94, map, scale 1:24,000
Brunswick [Bath NW] (pdf file: 1.7 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Bath NW [Brunswick 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-58, map, scale 1:24,000
Gardiner (pdf file: 1.4 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Gardiner NE [Gardiner 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-92, map, scale 1:24,000
Richmond {Gardiner SE] (pdf file: 1.5 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Gardiner SE [Richmond 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-93, map, scale 1:24,000
Phippsburg (pdf file: 2.0 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Phippsburg quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-120, map, scale 1:24,000
Augusta SE (pdf file: 1.5 MB)
Timson, Barry S. (mapper)
Coastal marine geologic environments of the Augusta SE [Augusta 7.5'] quadrangle
Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-50, map, scale 1:24,000
- Bedrock
- Geological History of Maine TABLE 1 (pdf file 18 KB)
- Historical evidence of sea-level change along the Maine coast (pdf file 585 KB)
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History of ice Margins in NewEngland (pdf file:1.7 MB)
Maine State Planning Office -
Hydropower Reform Coalition (web page)
Group working to achieve improvements to rivers altered by hydropower dams. - Impacts of future sea level rise on the coastal floodplain (pdf file 12.9 MB)
- Investigation of salt marsh stratigraphy as an indicator of sea level (pdf file 401 KB)
- Lower Androscoggin Bathymetry: Gulf Island Pond Dam-Below Brunswick Dam. (pdf file 1 MB)
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Fisheries Division Region A-1982 - Maine Dam List by County
(pdf file 304 KB)
(xls file 398 KB) - Maine History of Sea Level Changes, 1996 (pdf file 1.1 MB)
- Norumbega and other Fault Map SW Maine, Casco and Merrymeeting Bay Hussey 1988 (pdf file 729 KB)
- Norumbega-Blinn Hill Map-West 2007 (pdf file 294 KB)
- Postglacial faulting in the vicinity of the Norumbega fault zone (pdf file 2 MB)
- Riverbed-Sediment Mapping in the Edwards Dam Impoundment on the Kennebec River, Maine, By Use of Geophysical Techniques (pdf file 275 KB)
USGS
Dudley, R.W - The Role of Freshwater Inflows in Sustaining Estuarine Ecosystem Health
in the San Antonio Bay Region (pdf file 337 KB)
Houston Advanced Research Center
September 15, 2006 -
The Turbidity Problem in the Eastern River, Dresden, Maine (pdf; file size: 3.3 MB)
by ESR Inc, Geologic Consultants -
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5255 (pdf; file size: 3.1 MB)
A digital terrain model of bathymetry and shallow-zone bottom-substrate classification for Spednic Lake and estimates of lake-level-dependent habitat to support smallmouth bass persistence modeling
March 2011
