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  2. Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. • Length. 900 mi (1,400 km) [2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. [2] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting ...

  3. Eastern Continental Divide - Wikipedia

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    A map of the principal hydrological divides of North America. The Eastern Continental Divide (orange line) demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed. The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or Appalachian Divide is a hydrological divide in eastern North America that ...

  4. Fall line - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 1,400-kilometre (900-mile) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain meet in the eastern United States. [ 3 ] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present. The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed ...

  5. East Coast of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean. The Thirteen Colonies, which formed the United States in 1776 were located on this coast, and it has played an important role ...

  6. Atlantic seaboard watershed - Wikipedia

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    Area. • Total. 720,000 km 2 (277,000 sq mi) The Atlantic seaboard watershed is a watershed of the Atlantic Ocean in eastern North America along the Atlantic Canada (Maritimes) coast south of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Watershed, and the East Coast of the United States north of the Kissimmee River watershed of Lake Okeechobee basin in the ...

  7. Northeast megalopolis - Wikipedia

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    Population density in the Northeast megalopolis on the Atlantic seaboard. The Northeast megalopolis, also known as the Northeast Corridor, Acela Corridor, [5] Boston–Washington corridor, BosWash, or BosNYWash, [6] is the world's largest megalopolis by economic output [7] and the most populous megalopolis exclusively within the United States, with slightly over 50 million residents as of 2022.

  8. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Wikipedia

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    Map of planned route. The Erie Canal, built between 1817 and 1825, threatened traders south of New York City, who began to seek their own transportation infrastructure to link the burgeoning areas west of the Appalachian Mountains to mid-Atlantic markets and ports. As early as 1820, plans were being laid for a canal to link the Ohio River and ...

  9. Portage Escarpment - Wikipedia

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    The Portage Escarpment is a major landform in the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York which marks the boundary between the Till Plains to the north and west and the Appalachian Plateau to the east and south. The escarpment is the defining geological feature of New York's Finger Lakes region. Its proximity to Lake Erie creates a ...