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Interior Lowlands is a description of a large region of mainly flat land and may refer to: Interior Lowlands of North America, see Geography of North America and Geography of the Interior United States; Interior Lowlands of Australia, see Geography of Australia; Interior Lowlands Located west of the Appalachian Highlands and east of the Great ...
The underlying bedrock of the Interior Low Plateaus consists of sedimentary rocks such as limestone, sandstone, and shale. These date from the Ordovician period in the Nashville Basin and Bluegrass region, up to the Carboniferous Period in the Shawnee Hills. [4] The Interior Low Plateaus lie at the southern edge of the glacial boundary.
The plain is a belt of lowlands widening to the south that extends from south New England to Mexico. Interior Lowlands The lowlands extend down the middle of the continent from the Mackenzie Valley to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and include the Great Plains on the west and the agriculturally productive Interior Plains on the east.
USGS map colored by paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U.S. physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland (area 1), Atlantic Plain (2-3), Appalachian Highlands (4-10), Interior Plains (11-13), Interior Highlands (14-15), Rocky Mountain System (16-19), Intermontane Plateaus (20-22), & Pacific Mountain System (23-25) The legend ...
The Dissected Till Plains is a sub-unit of the Central Lowlands in the Interior Plains of North America. It is centered on the Iowa-Missouri state line. The eastern border is the Mississippi River and bounded on the south by the Missouri River Valley across central Missouri. Its western boundary is about 100 miles (160 km) west of the Missouri ...
71 Interior Low Plateaus; 72 Interior River Valleys and Hills; 74 Mississippi Valley Loess Plains; 82 Laurentian Plains and Hills; 83 Eastern Great Lakes and Hudson Lowlands; 84 Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens
The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic regions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic sections, [1] [2] [3] though some others use different terminology, such as realms, regions and subregions. [4]
This is a region of spruce taiga forest covering much of the central and northern interior of the U.S. state of Alaska and Yukon, Canada, from the Bering Sea and Beaufort Sea coasts to the Richardson Mountains in the east with the Brooks Range to the north and the Alaska Range to the south. This is an area of low hills and flatlands from sea ...