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  2. Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west. Some of the outcrops in the Appalachians contain rocks formed during the Precambrian era. The geologic processes that led to the formation of the Appalachian Mountains started 1.1 billion years ago.

  3. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Continental collisions raised the Appalachian-Ouachita chain to a lofty mountain range on the scale of the present-day Himalayas. The massive bulk of Pangea was completed near the end of the Paleozoic era (the Permian period) when Africa plowed into the continental agglomeration, with the Appalachian-Ouachita mountains near the middle. [10]

  4. List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of subranges within the Appalachian Mountains, a mountain range stretching ~2,050 miles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama, US. The Appalachians, at their initial formation, were a part of the larger Central Pangean Mountains along with the Scottish Highlands , the Ouachita Mountains , and the Anti-Atlas ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of orogenies - Wikipedia

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    Appalachian Mountains are a well-studied orogenic belt resulting from a late Paleozoic collision between North America and Africa. Taconic orogeny – Mountain-building period that affected most of New England; Acadian orogeny – North American orogeny; Alleghanian orogeny – Mountain-forming event that formed the Appalachian and Allegheny ...

  7. Appalachia - Wikipedia

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    The first cartographic appearance of Apalchen is on Diego Gutiérrez's 1562 map; the first use for the mountain range is the 1565 map by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues. [16] Le Moyne was also the first European to apply "Apalachen" specifically to a mountain range as opposed to a village, native tribe, or a southeastern region of North America. [17]

  8. Allegheny Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Allegheny Mountain Range (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / AL-ig-AY-nee) — also spelled Alleghany or Allegany, less formally the Alleghenies — is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada. Historically it represented a significant barrier to westward land travel and development.

  9. List of mountains of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Long Range Mountains: Appalachian Mountains: mountain range: Newfoundland and Labrador: The Cabox: 814 Longfellow Mountains ...