Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
In the telecommunications field, a unique impediment to development in the central Allegheny region is the United States National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), a large rectangle of land—about 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2)—that straddles the border area of Virginia and West Virginia.
The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains in southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia. The Allegheny Front forms the boundary between the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians to its east and the Appalachian Plateau (locally called the Allegheny Plateau ...
Spruce Mountain, located in eastern West Virginia, is the highest ridge of the Allegheny Mountains.The whale-backed ridge extends for only 16 miles (26 km) from northeast to southwest, but several of its peaks exceed 4,500 feet (1,400 m) in elevation.
These plateaus, such as the Allegheny Plateau, are considered provinces of the Appalachian Highlands and the mountains assigned to them are instead considered pieces of dissected plateaus. [ 4 ] Additionally, subranges and ridges of subranges (Such as the Yew Mountains ) are inconsistently related to the Appalachian Mountain Range.
The Monongahela River (/ m ə ˌ n ɒ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ h iː l ə / mə-NONG-gə-HEE-lə, /-ˈ h eɪ-/- HAY-), [10] sometimes referred to locally as the Mon (/ m ɒ n /), [11] is a 130-mile-long (210 km) [6] river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky The Western Allegheny Plateau is an ecoregion of the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome , located on the western Allegheny Plateau and in the Appalachia region of the Eastern United States .