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Description: PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF THE LOWER 48 UNITED STATES after Fenneman (1928) LAURENTIAN UPLAND 1. Superior Upland ATLANTIC PLAIN 2. Continental Shelf (not on map) 3. Coastal Plain a. Embayed section b. Sea Island section c. Floridian section d. East Gulf Coastal Plain e. Mississippi Alluvial Plain f. West Gulf Coastal Plain APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS 4. Piedmont province a. Piedmont Upland b. Piedmont Lowlands 5. Blue Ridge province a. Northern section b. Southern section 6. Valley and Ridge province a. Tennessee section b. Middle section c. Hudson Valley 7. St. Lawrence Valley a. Champlain section b. Northern section (not on map) 8. Appalachian Plateaus province a. Mohawk section b. Catskill section c. Southern New York section d. Allegheny Mountain section e. Kanawha section f. Cumberland Plateau section g. Cumberland Mountain section 9. New England Province a. Seaboard Lowland section b. New England Upland section c. White Mountain section d. Green Mountain section e. Taconic section 10. Adirondack province INTERIOR PLAINS 11. Interior Low Plateaus a. Highland Rim section b. Lexington Plain c. Nashville Basin 12. Central Lowland a. Eastern Lake section b. Western Lake section c. Wisconsin Driftless section d. Till Plains e. Dissected Till Plains f. Osage Plains 13. Great Plains province a. Missouri Plateau, glaciated b. Missouri Plateau, unglaciated c. Black Hills d. High Plains e. Plains Border f. Colorado Piedmont g. Raton section h. Pecos Valley i. Edwards Plateau k. Central Texas section INTERIOR HIGHLANDS 14. Ozark Plateaus a. Springfield-Salem plateaus b. Boston “Mountains” 15. Ouachita province a. Arkansas Valley b. Ouachita Mountains ROCKY MOUNTAIN SYSTEM 16. Southern Rocky Mountains 17. Wyoming Basin 18. Middle Rocky Mountains 19. Northern Rocky Mountains INTERMONTANE PLATEAUS 20. Columbia Plateau a. Walla Walla Plateau b. Blue Mountain section c. Payette section d. Snake River Plain e. Harney section 21. Colorado Plateaus a. High Plateaus of Utah b. Uinta Basin c. Canyon Lands d. Navajo section e. Grand Canyon section f. Datil section 22. Basin and Range province a. Great Basin b. Sonoran Desert c. Salton Trough d. Mexican Highland e. Sacramento section PACIFIC MOUNTAIN SYSTEM 23. Cascade-Sierra Mountains a. Northern Cascade Mountains b. Middle Cascade Mountains c. Southern Cascade Mountains d. Sierra Nevada 24. Pacific Border province a. Puget Trough b. Olympic Mountains c. Oregon Coast Range d. Klamath Mountains e. California Trough f. California Coast Ranges g. Los Angeles Ranges 25. Lower California province
Title: Contiguous US physiographic divisions
Credit: A Tapestry of Time and Terrain: Pamphlet to accompany Geologic Investigations Series I–2720[1]
Author: José F. Vigil, Richard J. Pike, and David G. Howell
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