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<p>A tiny hexagonal building built of mortared stone and shaped like a euhedral quartz crystal occupies the summit of a cuestaform ridge of Paleozoic gneiss in Storrs, Connecticut, USA. Dedicated to a crowd of thousands in 1937, this architectural gem quickly fell into obscurity beginning with the Great New England hurricane of 1938. Reclaiming, naming, restoring, and sharing this building is the purpose of the Stone Pavilion Project, a scholarly engagement initiative within the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Within the pavilion is a nationally significant exhibit of specimen stones, one from each U.S. state. Following the International Commission on Geoheritage, it’s an <i>ex situ</i> geocollection (museum) containing specimens of heritage stones (architecturally significant) collected from geosites (notable landforms). The building itself is a geocollection of stones from all 169 towns in Connecticut, giving it statewide significance. The ridge on which it’s built is mantled with a concentration of glacially transported slabs up to ~ 5&#xa0;m across making it a textbook example of extremely coarse meltout till, The Stone Pavilion meets the Geological Society of America’s definition of an in situ geoheritage site, being: “scientifically and educationally significant” for its collections, “aesthetically significant” for its microcosmic beauty, and “culturally significant” for its symbolic role in university history.</p>

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Geoheritage of the Stone Pavilion, University of Connecticut at Storrs, U.S.A.

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    2025年10月30日

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  • Robert M. Thorson

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A tiny hexagonal building built of mortared stone and shaped like a euhedral quartz crystal occupies the summit of a cuestaform ridge of Paleozoic gneiss in Storrs, Connecticut, USA. Dedicated to a crowd of thousands in 1937, this architectural gem quickly fell into obscurity beginning with the Great New England hurricane of 1938. Reclaiming, naming, restoring, and sharing this building is the purpose of the Stone Pavilion Project, a scholarly engagement initiative within the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Within the pavilion is a nationally significant exhibit of specimen stones, one from each U.S. state. Following the International Commission on Geoheritage, it’s an ex situ geocollection (museum) containing specimens of heritage stones (architecturally significant) collected from geosites (notable landforms). The building itself is a geocollection of stones from all 169 towns in Connecticut, giving it statewide significance. The ridge on which it’s built is mantled with a concentration of glacially transported slabs up to ~ 5 m across making it a textbook example of extremely coarse meltout till, The Stone Pavilion meets the Geological Society of America’s definition of an in situ geoheritage site, being: “scientifically and educationally significant” for its collections, “aesthetically significant” for its microcosmic beauty, and “culturally significant” for its symbolic role in university history.