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  2. Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Appalachian Mountains, [b] often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term "Appalachian" refers to several ...

  3. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Paleogeographic reconstruction showing the Appalachian Basin area during the Middle Devonian period. [9] The "Pennsylvania Salient" in the Appalachians appears to have been formed by a large, dense block of mafic volcanic rocks that became a barrier and forced the mountains to push up around it. 2012 image from NASA's Aqua satellite.

  4. Alleghanian orogeny - Wikipedia

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    The Alleghanian orogeny, a result of three separate continental collisions. USGS. The immense region involved in the continental collision, the vast temporal length of the orogeny, and the thickness of the pile of sediments and igneous rocks known to have been involved are evidence that at the peak of the mountain-building process, the Appalachians likely once reached elevations similar to ...

  5. Appalachia - Wikipedia

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    Appalachia (locally / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə /, also /-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə / [4]) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

  6. Appalachia (landmass) - Wikipedia

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    During most of the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago) the eastern half of North America formed Appalachia (named for the Appalachian Mountains), ...

  7. JD Vance's Appalachia controversy explained - AOL

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    What did JD Vance say about Appalachia in 'Hillbilly Elegy' "Hillbilly Elegy" centered around Vance's chaotic childhood in Ohio, plagued by familial trauma, domestic violence, generational ...

  8. Allegheny Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The word "Allegheny" was once commonly used to refer to the whole of what are now called the Appalachian Mountains. John Norton used it (spelled variously) around 1810 to refer to the mountains in Tennessee and Georgia. [2] Around the same time, Washington Irving proposed renaming the United States either "Appalachia" or "Alleghania". [3]

  9. Why a Florida hurricane caused such severe devastation in ...

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    The devastation in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene is the result of a combination of factors related to climate change and the area's mountainous terrain.