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Why Did Connecticut Get Its Shape Essay

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How did Connecticut get its shape.

Connecticut's landscape and surface change from 3 elements named tectonic plates, Glaciation, and Weathering and erosion.

Tectonic plates

Tectonic plates are the reason why earth's surface area isn’t flat. Tectonic plate formed the Appalachian mountains and Mount Frisell. This happened millions of years ago, and the cause of the formation is that the tectonic plates collide into each other start to rise upwards. This brings up big pieces of rock from the crust to form mountains. Tectonic plate didn’t just form mountains is Connecticut they also form valleys. Valleys are formed by the tectonic plates repelling off each other and creating a big, long valley that could hold water in them. This is one of the steps how the famous Connecticut river was formed. …show more content…

Millions of years ago, Connecticut was close to the equator and that caused the Wisconsin glacier to move. When, the Glacier was melting the water was running under the ice and caring rocks with the flow of the water. This is called plucking and the reason why is because when one rock is picked up that rock picks up other rocks and the rocks start shooting out like bullets and end up on a beach. This formed the Hammonasset beach. When the Wisconsin glacier stopped melting/ was all water the Wisconsin glacier formed Lake Hitchcock. All of the deebree that came down from the flow of the water was keeping all of the water trapped into a valley. When, the beebree/ dam broke most of the water went into Lake Connecticut. When all of the water was added to Lake Connecticut the water levels ross so high that the land got covered by water and then Lake connecticut was connected to the Atlantic Ocean. There was so much water that all of the water didn’t go into the Atlantic Ocean. Some of the water stayed in the valley that Lake hitchcock was. This is how the Connecticut river and Long Island Sound was

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