The Appalachian Mountains

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in the United States and the most photographed area was the Appalachia region. Many of the photographs intentional or not, became a visual definition of the Appalachia region. The images have drawn from the poorest areas and people to gain support for the war on poverty, but came to represent the entirety of the region. The point of the Looking at Appalachia project is to explore the diversity of Appalachia and to establish a visual counter point. (Home - Looking at Appalachia.) The three images I am going to analyze are challenge some of the stereotypes put on the Appalachia region. I believe my images challenge the stereotype that all Appalachian people do is work hard, go to church, and don’t have time for anything besides those two things.

When one thinks of the Appalachians, one generally thinks of the mountains of the southeastern region of the United States. However the Mountain range itself actually begins in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, extending from there for almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to central Alabama in the United States. Thus the region also forms the eastern counterpart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, extends for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km), that covers land in two North American countries! With a distance of 3,000 miles, the Rockies must have a variety of physical features and landscapes that makes it an attractive area to tour and explore. However, all of the human interest in this mountain range could come at a devastating cost. Disturbances such as resource extraction, tourism/settlement, and farming in the Rocky Mountain region must cease because they are causing major, irreversible environmental degradation.

4. The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America and scoured the present day American Midwest.

Cenozoic sedimentary rocks predominated to the west and east of the central mountain while plutonic rocks predominated in the peninsular ranges. The irregular contact between these geologic regions reflects the ancient topography of the area. The ancient oceanic crustal plate created an archipelago of a volcanic island. The former's subduction created immense volumes of magma. This resulted to the congealation of plutonic rock in the crust. The local rocks that existed before the tectonic forces uplifted, and erosion capped the deeply buried plutonic rocks that formed a steep and rugged mountains coastline, similar to that present one, which in the west coast of south America.

For example, The appalachian Mountains were formed by a massive continental collision over 300 million years ago. According to page 88 in my science notebook, the rocks in the Chattooga River is evidence of the continental collision. Mountains are formed when two continental plates collide, and form the mountains. The Appalachian mountains, were formed during Pangea. The North American Plate and the African Plate collided. When this happened the Appalachian Mountains were formed. These mountains then grew bigger, but as soon as it started growing, it also eroded. Erosion and

In Uneven Ground, the author Ronald D. Eller narrates the economic, political, and social change of Appalachia after World War II. He writes “persistent unemployment and poverty set Appalachia off as a social and economic problem area long before social critic Michael Harrington drew attention to the region as part of the “other America” in 1962.”(pp.2) Some of the structural problems stated by Eller include problems of land abuse, political corruption, economic shortsightedness, and the loss of community and culture; personally view the economic myopia as being the most daunting.

If you look at early Appalachian history, many of the earliest settlers in the mountains were of Irish decent. Their ancestors had originally migrated to northeastern America to escape religious persecution and eventually made their way south to the Appalachian Mountains, which they preferred because the area was similar in climate and geographic features to Ireland. Early settlers in the mountains had a Paganistic belief system and because of the geographic location of their settlements, were isolated from the outside world. In the early 1900s there weren’t roads, railroads, paths, etc. to travel into the mountains, which socially isolated groups living in those areas.

Pennsylvania is a state situated in the middle-Atlantic regions and north eastern part of United States. The Appalachian Mountains passes in the middle of Pennsylvania. It is the sixth densely populated, 33rd largest and 6th known state from 50 united states. It is one of original 13 colonies, William Penn was the one founded Pennsylvania as a haven for his associated Quakers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania capital, was the location of the both first and the second Continental Congresses in the year 1774 and 1775, the end of which brought the Announcement of Independence, leading to the American Revolution. Pennsylvania became the second state after the war, where Delaware was the first, to approve the United States Constitution. Pennsylvania

The Piedmont region is home to many physical features such as Stone Mountain, many rivers, and Warm Springs! Stone Mountain provides many tourist attractions such as climbing, boating, trails, and shows. There are many rivers such as the Chattahoochee, the Flint, and Ogeechee. They are very good for kayaking, canoeing, and fishing. Warm Springs offers many attractions such as horseback riding, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's house near the springs, hiking, and

Have you ever pondered on a vacation and didn't know where to go. Well, if you love mountains, green hills and friendly people, then the Pyrenees mountains are for you. Located in Europe, it's a wonderful place with an open landscape, it’s the perfect place to reconnect with nature.

The plates colliding together produced considerable seismic activity, thus leading to the formation of the Acadian Mountain range. “The Acadian orogeny is the third of the four orogenies that created the Appalachian orogeny and subsequent basin.” (Faill, 297) Orogeny describes any event that leads to enormous structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere due to the interaction between tectonic plates. This series of Appalachian orogeny resulted in the formation of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America. The formation started in the early Devonian period, however reached its pinnacle during the mid to late Devonian period. As a result of the newly formed mountain range, there was extensive erosion, which produced prodigious amounts of sediment, which was then deposited in lowlands and shallow seas nearby during the mid to late Devonian period. This created a large amount of new low line continental

The explanation for Pangaea's (creation and construction/ group of objects) brought in the modern explanation of plate (the study of Earth's surface plate movement), which suggests says that the Earth's outer shell is broken up into (more than two, but not a lot of) plates that slide over Earth's rocky shell, the mantle.

Convergent boundaries causes non-volcanic mountains to form on land. This happens when two continental crusts collide into each other. Neither of the plates subduct since both of the plates are equally dense. Instead of subducting, the plates crumple and thicken, creating an uplift to form a large mountain range. Volcanoes are not likely to form under these mountains since a subducting plate is to generate magma. This occurrence will form large mountain ranges such as the Himalaya Mountains in south Asia and the Sierra Nevada in

First, Tectonic plates move 2 to 5 centimeters (that’s 1-2 inches per year!). It’s also the speed our nails grow. Then, the tectonic plates create volcanoes.The volcanoes then erupt making mountains. That is how mountains are made!