GEOLOGY
PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
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Rocky Mountains
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Red Ridge Mountains
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Appalachians Mountains
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Sierra Nevada Moutains
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Detailed explanation-1: -Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada . The Appalachian Mountains run for 1, 500 miles along the east coast of the United States from northern Alabama to Maine. The highest point of the Appalachians is 6, 684 feet at Mount Mitchell in North Carolina.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Appalachians dominate the eastern United States and separate the Eastern Seaboard from the interior with a belt of subdued uplands that extends nearly 1, 500 miles (2, 400 km) from northeastern Alabama to the Canadian border.
Detailed explanation-3: -The eastern edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field (and Cumberland Plateau) is called the Pottsville or Cumberland Escarpment. This escarpment (in large part) is formed from resistant Pennsylvanian-age sandstones and conglomerates.
Detailed explanation-4: -The White Mountains traverse from New Hampshire to Maine, and the Cumberland Mountains range from West Virginia to Alabama. The Allegheny Mountains range from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, and the Blue Ridge Mountains span from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
Detailed explanation-5: -Berkshires. Black Mountains (North Carolina) Blue Ridge Mountains. Brushy Mountains (North Carolina)