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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains are a chain of mountains in the eastern United States. Ask questions about this vast system here.
736 Questions
Is the Appalachian mountains south or north of the US?
The Appalachian mountains are on the eastern part of the United States,if you didn't know
In which environmentally sensitive areas can bauxite be found?
Amazonian rainforest is one of the environmentally sensitive areas where bauxite is found. Bauxite is the main ore of Aluminium.
What do sinkholes most often form in the Appalachian Mountains?
well it could be because of limestone depsits
when acid rain makes it dosolve
and wham sink whole lol
:) ~lizzy
When were the Appalachian mountains formed?
300 million years ago
The Appalachian Mountain Range is estimated to be formed 300 millions years ago, when Pangaea was breaking off into Laurasia and converged further into Africa and North America.
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How many square miles in the Appalachian mountains?
The Appalachian Mountains cover an area of 737,000 square miles.
The mountain range that maria bergman is looking at is the Bitterroot range in Idaho. Ahhmmm, NO! It works best when you double check your "wild guess". Please see the attached link: http://www.losthorsecreeklodge.com/. This Mountain Range is in Montana.
What did Robby Benson teach at Appalachian State?
In 2002 Robby Benson was directing and producing television in LA, plus teaching Master of Fine Arts students classes in filmmaking, screenwriting, and acting for film at California Institute of the Arts.
In the fall of 2002 Robby and family fell in love with the mountains of NC when he flew in to teach a filmmaking seminar at the request of then Chancellor of Appalachian State, Frank Borkowski. The Benson family purchased a farm there in 2003, relocating from Los Angeles, and Robby was a full time artist in residence at Appalachian State, teaching a semester of classes to undergraduate students: filmmaking, acting for film, and screenwriting in the fall of 2003.
Robby's original musical Open Heart, which he had been working on with Karla DeVito and Stan Brown, was scheduled to be produced by The Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC February of 2004. His last class at Appalachian State was an intensive seminar for students interested in voice-over work in January of 2004, prior to leaving for the production of Open Heart.
What percentage of North Carolina's land drains to the Mississippi River?
5.15% to about 10% sorry i could not give you an exact #
When did Appalachian School of Law shooting happen?
Appalachian School of Law shooting happened on 2002-01-16.
What is the highest point oi the Appalachian mountain range?
The highest point of the Appalachian Mountains is the Johnson peak.
Who sings history channel Appalachian outlaws song?
The theme song for the History Channel show American Outlaws is "Barton Hollow" by The Civil Wars. This show is a historical drama based on the ginseng trade in West Virginia.
Where is the Laurel Mountain Preservation Association in Montrose West Virginia located?
The address of the Laurel Mountain Preservation Association is: Po Box 217, Montrose, WV 26283-0217
What are the mountain ranges for the northeast part of the US?
The Appalachian Mountains start in New England, running diagonally to north of Atlanta Georgia. In Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Mountains are part of The Appalachian Mountains. In Virginia primarily and partly in other states, The Blue Ridge Mountains are also part of The Appalachian Mountains.
How were the Appalachian Mountains formed?
The Appalachian Mountains were formed, or more specifically started forming, some 3-400 million years ago during the Ordovician Period by a process of folding and thrust faulting when an oceanic plate collided with the boundary that is the Appalachian area. Though it had always existed at a plate boundary, until this tectonic shift the Appalachian area had been a calm one - called a "passive margin."
To better understand thrust faulting, consider this: imagine a short stack of paper laying flat on a table. If you were to hold one side of the stack firmly to the table, and then push against the opposite edge with your free hand, the pages would crumple back and upwards, or "fold" into a series of peaks and valleys. In this scenario, some of the pages from the bottom now may overlap or jut above pages from the top in an odd, almost unnatural way.
In this analogy, your steady hand and the stack of paper are that active plate boundary of what would later be called the North American Plate, and your free hand is the oceanic plate that collided with it. The folding, faulted paper is - you guessed it - the Appalachian Mountains.
At the time of this collision, which took tens of millions of years longer to happen than it did to explain, the supercontinent of Pangea was also formed. At their newest, it is believed the Appalachians were at least as tall as the Rockies, if not larger. Over the last 300 million years, however, the once rugged peaks of relatively "soft" stone (limestone in particular) were eroded to form the ridges and valleys so characteristic of the mountains we know today.
The Appalachian Mountains are nearly 500 million years old. They were formed by a shift in the tectonic plates in that area, creating a new subduction zone.
What is the oldest mountain range on the continent is?
If you mean the North American continent, we have that the oldest mountain range is the Appalachian Mountains. It is estimated that this chain of mountains began to form 480 million years ago.
Appalachian Mountains in NEW YORK and Pennsylvania?
yes, part of it is in new york but most of it is in pennsylvania
What 2 major mountain ranges run through the US and where are they located?
The two primary chains are The Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Rocky Mountains in the west. Both of these have numerous smaller chains with other names.
Snow storms in the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains form when moist air is forced to rise over the mountains, leading to cooling and condensation of water vapor into snow. The moisture for these storms can come from nearby bodies of water, such as the Atlantic Ocean for the Appalachian Mountains and the Pacific Ocean for the Rocky Mountains.
