The Appalachian Mountains Of North America

Hess, D. (2011). Mcknight's Physical Geography; A Landscapes Appreciation. (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc

The Appalachian Mountains go through a total of 13 states according to the federal government. Running from Southern New York to Northern Mississippi, one of those 13 states is Kentucky which is my home. The region is a 205,000 square mile area that extends well over 1000 miles. 42 percent of the population is rural compared to 20 percent of the rural area in the rest of the national population.

Appalachia is often portrayed as an arrested frontier, a geographically isolated subculture, and reservoir of culturally homogenous. Appalachians are pictured as proud, fiercely independent, and god-fearing southerners. But in all reality they are portrayed as fighting and feuding, barefooted and backward, ignorant degenerates, downtrodden by centuries of isolation, inbreeding, and poverty. So how was Appalachia discovered? Well Appalachia was prompted in the mid 1870s by local color writers such as Mary Murfee and John Fox Jr. who explored in fiction and travel sketches such mountain themes as conflicting Civil War loyalties, moon shining, and feuding. (Billings)

The beauty of Arkansas did not magically appear overnight. In the words of Albert Einstein, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”(“Albert Einstein Quotes”). The geography of Arkansas is made of six different areas. The Ozark Mountains, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas River Valley make up the northwestern half of the great state of Arkansas. The Mississippi Delta, West Gulf Coastal plains, and Crowley's Ridge make up the southeastern half of the state of Arkansas. Three of these areas have been chosen to compare the similarities and differences based on their creation, foliage and climate. The areas chosen are the mystical Ozark Mountains, the stunning Ouachita mountains and the breathtaking Arkansas River Valley areas.

The collection consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky.

In James Lane Allen’s Through Cumberland Gap on Horseback, the mention is made to the beauty of the land and that the climate was just the same but that traveling to the mountain region was not only difficult as they had to take a train then a wagon ride, followed by a trek on horseback, but a lengthy process. Among the experiences recorded Allen describes the meeting of several locals and this is where his responsibility for Appalachian

The Ozark Mountains are characterized by eroded plateaus caused by the collision of the super continent of Gondwana, which compressed the present continents of South America, Africa, Antarctica and other land masses. These forces uplifted Arkansas with limestone and calcareous rocks such as sandstone and chert. Erosion lowered the surface creating a level plateaus which included: The Boston Plateau, the Springfield Plateau, and the Salem Plateaus. Rivers, over time, cut valleys into the plateaus. Present day Fayetteville-Springdale-Rodgers, Harrison, Mountain Home, Batesville, and Clinton are all cities which are within the Ozark Mountains boundaries.

Appalachia is a region extending from Mississippi to New York and includes eleven states within its official

Quebec is the providence in Canada, covering nearly 600,000 square miles. The notable landmasses found within Quebec include the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains. The Encyclopedia of Britannica reveals that the Canadian Shield has ice-smoothed hills, and is the most massive area containing exposed Precambrian rock (Behiels). The Appalachian Mountains are the separating feature distinguishing the Quebec’s borders from Main, Vermont, and New Hampshire (“Quebec Mountains”). The St. Lawrence River flows southwest of Lake Ontario to the northeast. Attractions involving the river include the Québec-Lévis ferry, cruises, and strolls on the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain (Quebec).

The first biome I would like to talk about is the grassland biome. There are two kinds of grassland biomes; tropic and temperate grasslands. West Virginia is part of the temperate grassland. Sometimes, the temperature can reach up to 100 degrees. In the winter, the temperatures are very cold. Grassland biomes receive between 10 to 30 inches of rain.

In New England, the Trail is both rocky and steep, and sometimes muddy and root-obstructed as well. The mid-Atlantic states have the lowest mountains, where the trail frequently leads along rocky ridges. The South has the highest mountains on the Trail, but those mountains have deep soils that allow for switchbacks. Lengthy, graded ascents and descents are frequent.

The Unaka Mountain forms part of the Appalachian mountain range of the United States. This mountain range covers 2,500 miles of Tennessee. In the

Appalachia is a 205,000-square-mile region that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. It is home to more than 25 million people.

One of the largest geological features shaped by tectonic plate activity is The Rocky Mountain Chain. This immense landform was initially formed 55 – 80 million years ago and is situated through Canada and the United States going through, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico and includes over 100 mountain ranges. The chain is over 3000 miles long and 300 miles wide in some places, the highest peak being Mount Elbert (4,401 m). The Rocky Mountains contain igneous rock (Basalt and Granite), sedimentary rock (Argillite) and metamorphic rock (Precambrian metamorphic). The Rockies are very resource rich in minerals including silver, gold, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil shale and phosphate. This mountain chain provides the communities

Ebersole, 2013). The main rivers that run through Alabama help shape the placement of the minerals and rocks in Alabama; they also help shape the regions. The Tennessee River shapes the Cumberland Plateau region, The Coosa River and Alabama River shape the Piedmont Upland, and the Coosa River also shapes the Valley and Ridge region (Enchanted Learning, ND). As you start off in the Southwest corner in the East Gulf Coastal Plain, you will find where Alabama meets with the Gulf of Mexico, as you move up towards the Northeast corner you encounter primarily sand, clay, and mud which composes over half of the rock type in Alabama. There is a band where the sand is replaced by Carbonate Rock as the primary rock type that stretches diagonally from about half way up to a fourth of the way across the