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Picture of Quechee Gorge in Quechee, Vermont
Quechee Gorge
is a mile-long, 165-feet deep gorge on the
Ottauquechee River in Hartford, Vermont. The gorge
frames the glacial Devonian Gile Mountain Formation,
an ice-contact delta from meltwater streams flowing
into Lake Hitchcock.
Lake
Hitchcock, dammed in the south by a glacial moraine,
extended from Connecticut nearly 200 miles north to
the Canadian border, with smaller arms extending
into present river valleys.
When glacial
Lake Hitchcock drained, the Ottauquechee River cut
quickly through delta sediment, establishing the
present course of the Ottauquechee River. It has
slowly carved the gorge through bedrock for the past
13,000 years. |
