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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.
A 1775 map of the Allegheny Plateau and Mountain Range. Trans-Allegheny travel had been facilitated when a military trail— Braddock Road —was blazed and opened by the Ohio Company in 1751. (It followed an earlier Indian and pioneer trail known as Nemacolin's Path .)
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From Kentucky the elevation drops down to 2000 feet in northwestern Alabama. The plateau has a slight slant towards the northwest, making it higher on the eastern side. [2] A large portion of the plateau is a coalfield, which was formed approximately 320 million years ago during the Pennsylvanian Age. [3]
The Allegheny Front seen in the right of this photograph Blue Knob in Pennsylvania and its wintry valley below This list of ridges and summits of the Allegheny Mountains identifies geographic elevations for about 500 miles (800 km) from north central Pennsylvania , through eastern West Virginia and western Maryland , to western Virginia in the ...
Glaciated Allegheny Plateau: 1,164 feet (355 m) [40] Cuyahoga River: 590 feet (180 m) 574 feet (175 m) 57 Mammoth Cave: Mammoth Cave Ridge near Park Ridge Road: Pennyroyal Plateau: 925 feet (282 m) Green River: 421 feet (128 m) 504 feet (154 m) 58 Indiana Dunes: Upland Trail, Pinhook Bog Unit [41] 900 feet (270 m) Lake Michigan: 577 feet (176 m ...
A shaded map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians on the Virginia–West Virginia border. Central: The central section runs from the Hudson Valley in New York to the New River through the Lehigh Valley and central Pennsylvania and western Maryland to western Virginia and West Virginia.
Other high points along the front include the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia, a broad, rocky plateau at an elevation of about 4,000 feet (1,200 m); Dan's Rock on Dans Mountain in Maryland at 2,895 feet (882 m); and Blue Knob in northern Bedford County, Pennsylvania, with an elevation greater than 3,120 feet (950 m).