Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province
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Name (Latin)
Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province
Other forms of name
Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province
Valley and Ridge Geologic Province
Valley and Ridge Province (Physiographic province)
See Also From tracing topical name
Physiographic provinces East (U.S.)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7332669
Library of congress:
sh2018000806
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Swain, Lindsay A. Summary of the hydrogeology of the Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, and Piedmont physiographic provinces in the eastern United States, 2004:page 1 (Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province)
- National Park Service, April 3, 2018:Physiographic Provinces Valley and Ridge (The Valley and Ridge province is a set of northeast-southwest trending valleys and ridges that stretch from central Alabama to New York; these ridges and valleys are the result of folded Paleozoic sedimentary beds)
- New Georgia Encyclopedia, April 3, 2018:Valley and Ridge Geologic Province (The Valley and Ridge is the westernmost physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains, bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge, the south by the Piedmont, and the northwest by the Appalachian Plateau; characterized by long north-northeasterly trending ridges separated by fertile valleys and extends continuously from New York to the edge of the Coastal Plain (fall line) in Alabama; much of northwest Georgia lies within the Valley and Ridge province)
- Britannica online, June 8, 2018:Ridge and Valley (physiographic province, part of the Appalachian Highlands in the eastern United States; bordered on the east by the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces and on the west by the Appalachian Plateau)