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The Interior Plains are highlighted in red. The Interior Plains is a vast physiographic region that spreads across the Laurentian craton of central North America, extending along the east flank of the Rocky Mountains from the Gulf Coast region to the Arctic Beaufort Sea.
The term "Great Plains" is used in the United States to describe a sub-section of the even more vast Interior Plains physiographic division, which covers much of the interior of North America. It also has currency as a region of human geography , referring to the Plains Indians or the Plains states .
North Carolina: 268.49 acres (1.0865 km 2) Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is located in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina, and preserves Connemara, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg. Sandburg and his family moved here in 1945 for the peace and solitude needed for his writing and for the roughly ...
Fossil Butte preserves the 50-million-year-old Green River lake beds, the best paleontological record of tertiary aquatic communities in North America. Fossils including fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when ...
There are two districts and five individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including one that is also a State Antiquities Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025. [1]
bigtallguy, flickr In the age of digital cameras, a vacation just isn't a vacation without a little photographic evidence. Have you ever stopped to wonder how many times the Lincoln Memorial or ...
Loess, wind-blown silt, is a relatively common soil type in the interior of North America. The Dissected Loess Plains are exceptional because of the depth of loess laid down, with deposits up to 200 feet thick. [1] These deposits are dissected by a set of drainage ravines, canyons, and deep valleys.
America's historic buildings. Historic churches. Revolutionary homes. Record-setting skyscrapers. Take a virtual history class by scrolling through this gallery of 39 American landmark buildings ...