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  2. Tennessee flooding map shows the dams and rivers ... - AOL

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    Weather. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. ... Tennessee flooding map shows the dams and rivers impacted by Helene. Show comments.

  3. Eastern Tennessee seismic zone - Wikipedia

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    The United States Geological Survey estimates that earthquakes as large as magnitude 7.5 are possible in the ETSZ. Even though Oak Ridge, Tennessee experiences these earthquakes, the nuclear reactors in the city are rated to handle 8.0 magnitude earthquakes. So, if a 7.5 magnitude earthquake were to occur, a meltdown would be highly unlikely.

  4. Geology of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi River as well as the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers formed and cut deep into the valleys. The Nashville Basin , which in reality is a geologic dome , was pushed up from underneath by a mantle plume , exposing softer strata that with additional erosion on the Highland Rim surrounding the basin expanded the size of the basin.

  5. Harpeth River - Wikipedia

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    The Harpeth rises in the westernmost part of Rutherford County, Tennessee, just to the east of the community of College Grove in eastern Williamson County.The upper portion of the river has been contaminated to some extent by the operation of a lead smelting plant located near the Kirkland community that recycled used automobile batteries from the 1950s until the 1990s.

  6. Geography of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Geological formations in Tennessee largely correspond with the state's topographic features, and, in general, decrease in age from east to west. Most of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the east were formed during the Precambrian era, and contain the state's oldest rocks, igneous strata that is more than 1 billion years old.

  7. File:USA Tennessee relief location map.svg - Wikipedia

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    More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available.. 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes

  8. United States Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, the USGS unveiled the topoView website, a new way to view their entire digitized collection of over 178,000 maps from 1884 to 2006. The site is an interactive map of the United States that allows users to search or move around the map to find the USGS collection of maps for a specific area.

  9. Physiographic regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...