Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

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The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians are a long, folded belt of parallel mountain ridges and valleys forming a major physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mountain range region
physiographic province
borderedBy Appalachian Plateau
Blue Ridge Mountains
characterizedBy elongated valleys
long parallel ridges
contains Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania)
Cumberland Mountains
Cumberland Valley
Great Valley
Kittatinny Mountain
Lehigh Valley
Shenandoah Valley
Valley and Ridge Province (USGS)
containsRockType limestone
sandstone
shale
country United States
dominantRockType sedimentary rock
drainedBy Coosa River
Delaware River
Potomac River
Susquehanna River
Tennessee River
extendsFrom New York
extendsTo Alabama
Georgia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
geologicAge Paleozoic
geologicStructure fold-and-thrust belt
highestPoint Spruce Knob
highestPointElevation 1482 meters
4863 feet
knownFor distinctive linear ridge-and-valley topography
locatedIn eastern United States
majorLandUse agriculture
forestry
mining
orogeny Acadian orogeny
Alleghanian orogeny
linked to: Appalachian orogeny

Taconic orogeny
partOf Appalachian Mountains
physiographicDivisionOf Appalachian Highlands
separates Appalachian Plateau from Piedmont

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Allegheny Mountains separatedFrom Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Valley and Ridge Province contains Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Caledonian orogeny recordedIn Appalachian belt
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Clinton, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
South Branch Potomac River ecoregion Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
North Branch Potomac River near Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Union County, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Gadsden, Alabama locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Loudon County, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Cocke County, Tennessee physiographicProvince Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Appalachian Valley boundedBy Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Blue Ridge Mountains separates Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Cherokee County, Georgia partOfRegion Appalachian foothills
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Central Alabama containsFeature Appalachian foothills
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Cove Gap, Pennsylvania locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Red Mountain partOf Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Western Virginia includes Valley and Ridge region of Virginia
subject linked to: western Virginia
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Western Virginia hasLandform Valley and Ridge Appalachians
subject linked to: western Virginia
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Piedmont region of Georgia borders Ridge and Valley region of Georgia
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Pinhoti National Recreation Trail ecosystem Appalachian ridge and valley
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Allegheny Front separates Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Ruffner Mountain partOf Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Central Pennsylvania contains Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
French Broad River ecoregion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Augusta County, Virginia partOfRegion Valley and Ridge physiographic province
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania) partOf Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
subject linked to: Blue Mountain
Dalton, Georgia locatedInValley Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Hardy County, West Virginia locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Bedford County locatedIn Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Lost River geologicalSetting Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Harriman, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
McMinn County, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
North Fork Mountain geologicFormation Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Columbia County, Pennsylvania locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Monroe County, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Washington County, Tennessee hasFeature Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
West Branch Susquehanna River region Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Hawkins County, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
New Market, Tennessee locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Mill Creek, West Virginia locatedInPhysiographicRegion Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Abram S. Hewitt State Forest near Appalachian Mountains physiographic province
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Whitfield County locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge and Valley
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Lebanon Valley geologicalContext Appalachian Valley and Ridge province
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania locatedInPhysiographicProvince Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Kittatinny Mountains geologicalProvince Ridge and Valley Appalachians
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
North Georgia hasSubrange Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Birmingham District iron ore field partOf Appalachian Valley and Ridge province
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Scarlet Chamber geologicalSetting Appalachian Valley and Ridge province
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Missionary Ridge partOf Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region
linked to: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians