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  2. Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Appalachian Mountains, [b] often called the Appalachians, ... and partly because the range was formed over numerous geologic time periods, ...

  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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    While remains of the advanced ceratopsians, most notably the centrosaurines and chasmosaurines [98] which were very common in Laramidia during this time period, they were long thought to be nonpresent in Appalachia, however this notion changed in 2016 when a ceratopsian tooth was unearthed in Mississippi's Owl Creek Formation, [99] [100] [101 ...

  7. 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]

  8. History of the Catskill Mountains - Wikipedia

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    During this time period, a meteor is believed to have struck the area. Panther Mountain is the remains of its crater. Two hundred million years ago, as plate tectonics uplifted the Appalachians, the delta region rose almost uniformly into a plateau rather than breaking up into smaller mountains. Streams that formed over time eroded gaps and ...

  9. Acadian orogeny - Wikipedia

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    The Acadian orogeny is a long-lasting mountain building event which began in the Middle Devonian, reaching a climax in the Late Devonian. [1] It was active for approximately 50 million years, beginning roughly around 375 million years ago (Ma), with deformational, plutonic, and metamorphic events extending into the early Mississippian. [2]