Appalachian Plateau

Appalachian Plateau

The Appalachian Plateau is the western part of the Appalachian mountains, stretching from New York to Georgia and Alabama. The plateau is a second level United States physiographic region.

From the east the escarpment that forms the edge of the plateau has the appearance of a mountain range. [cite book |first=Charles Redway |last=Dryer |title=High School Geography |publisher=American Book Company |location=New York |year=1911 found online at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN12014735&id=b5qdnN3E7iAC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=%22Appalachian+Plateau%22] ] However, technically it is an eroded plain of sedimentary rock not mountains. [cite book |first=Brook |last=Elliott | coauthors=Barbara Elliott |title=Hiking Kentucky |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=Champagne, IL |year=1998 |id=ISBN 0-88011-812-1 found online at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0880118121&id=-cmsEQ9X-38C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22Appalachian+Plateau%22&sig=Hpxc8UtzLrPxAl_E20fx3ead2i4] ] A large portion of the plateau is a coalfield formed during the Pennsylvanian Period. [cite book |first=Chad |last=Montrie |title=To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill, NC |year=2003 |id=ISBN 0-8078-2765-7 |id=ISBN 0-8078-5435-2 found online at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0471598178&id=VllQ1fvzzaoC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=%22Appalachian+Plateau%22&sig=ZZsTSY3JCt267bfvjDOLzB48s4U] ] The surface of the plateau slopes gently to the northwest and merges imperceptibly into the Interior Plains.

The main physiographic sections (generally ordered from the northeast to the southwest) of the plateau are named the Mohawk section, the Catskill section, the southern New York section, the Allegheny Plateau section, the Kanawha section, the Cumberland Plateau section, and the Cumberland Mountains section. [cite web |title=Physiographic Regions |work=A Tapestry of Time and Terrain:The Union of Two Maps - Geology and Topography |url=http://tapestry.usgs.gov/physiogr/physio.html |accessdate=2006-05-14]

ee also

*Geology of the Appalachians

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