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The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. [2] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present.
The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 1,400-kilometre (900-mile) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain meet in the eastern United States. [3] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present.
The place name East Coast derives from the idea that the contiguous 48 states are defined by two major coastlines, one at the western edge and one on the eastern edge. Other terms for referring to this area include the Eastern Seaboard, which is another term for coastline, [3] Atlantic Coast, and Atlantic Seaboard because the coastline lies along the Atlantic Ocean.
The Eastern Continental Divide (orange line) demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed. The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or Appalachian Divide is a hydrological divide in eastern North America that separates the easterly Atlantic Seaboard watershed from the ...
The Sierra Escarpment in California At the Florida Escarpment, seen in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the sea bed drops precipitously from less than 300 to 3,000 m (1,000 to 10,000 ft) over a short distance. Allegheny Front (West Virginia-Maryland-Pennsylvania) Blue Ridge Escarpment (North Carolina–Virginia) Balcones Fault ; Bergen Hill
The system's heavy rain doused areas up and down the Eastern Seaboard, including along the I-95 corridor, and even caused a rainy and dreary weekend westward across the central Appalachians.
Fall line may also refer to: Places. Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, a long escarpment in the Eastern United States Fall Line Freeway, ...
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