Connecticut Migration Processes

There are many processes how Connecticut’s surface and landscape got its shape. Connecticut got its shape by three different processes such as, plate tectonics, glaciation, and weathering and erosion.

One of the processes is plate tectonics. The landform is the Connecticut River Valley. The Connecticut River was formed by the WIsconsin Glacier. North America and Africa moved apart. The rifts are located on lowlands in Connecticut. Large amounts of rain would run off land higher than the valley. Also, that could cause flooding and erosion deposits sediment into the valley. Plate tectonics shift to raise the land for erosion to wear down. Connecticut was very close to the equator. Plate tectonics shifted and dug a huge hole. The Wisconsin Glacier covered our entire state including Long Island, New York. Meltwater was collected and it created Lake Hitchcock.

The landform are the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains run from Canada all the way to Georgia. The mountains are a result of the movement of plate tectonics. The result of the Appalachian Mountains is the pushing of the crust. Continental collision in the Appalachian Mountains are rocks in the Chattooga River. The layers were buried deeply in the crust. For example, folded layers and pieces of white material were buried. Also, the white material has been melted out of old rocks. Lastly, this doesn’t happen except in the deep crust where it is very hot. In Wallen, Tennessee, rocks have been moved three hundred miles from where they have started. The slab of rocks is the product of this collision between Africa and North America. The original sheet of rocks were three to four miles thick but erosion has reduced it to what it is today. Divergent boundaries formed the Appalachian