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The Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau is located in an arc around southeastern Ohio, West Virginia, into western Pennsylvania and a small portion of southwestern New York State. This area is a dissected plateau , characterized by sandstone , shale , and many coal seams.
The Allegheny Plateau (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / AL-ig-AY-nee) is a large dissected plateau area of the Appalachian Mountains in western and central New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern Ohio. It is divided into the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau and the glaciated Allegheny Plateau.
The Allegheny Highlands forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion located in a large part of the Allegheny Plateau physiographic province, including both unglaciated and glaciated portions, in Pennsylvania and New York within North America, [2] as defined by the World Wildlife Fund.
As a result, this area of the Allegheny Plateau has lower relief and gentler slopes than the relatively rugged Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. In general, the glaciated lies to the north and west of the unglaciated, and forms an arc in northeastern to southeastern Ohio lying between the glacial till plains and the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau.
The Wayne National Forest is located in the Appalachian part of the US state of Ohio, in the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau.It is the first and only national forest in Ohio. . Forest headquarters are located between The Plains and Nelsonville, Ohio, on US Route 33 overlooking the Hocking Riv
The county has a total area of 508 square miles (1,320 km 2), of which 504 square miles (1,310 km 2) is land and 4.8 square miles (12 km 2) (1.0%) is water. [5]Athens County is located in the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau region of Ohio.
The Allegheny Plateau — a large plateau of the Appalachian Plateau system, northwest of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
It is located in the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau in Belmont County almost five miles (8 km) from the village of Belmont on Ohio State Route 147. History