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tundra up to the onset of the Holocene, when the boreal forests shifted north. Vegetation in the central Appalachian Mountains east towards the Atlantic...

making it the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. It is said that North Carolina is a "valley of humility between two mountains of conceit"....

particular place. North America extends in a north-south direction, following the course of the Rocky Mountains (location) and other mountain ranges (the "Cordillera")...

the Azores as nine islands that occupy a triple junction between the North American, African and Eurasian Plate, a spreading center bound by the Mid-Atlantic...

into the three most common types of mountains. The highest mountain ranges are called Folded Mountains. Folded Mountains form when rock layers are compressed...

of granitic plutons. At the same time, the Rocky Mountains and Andes Mountains formed in North America and South America respectively. South America continued...

Three surges of colonization brought peoples to the North American continent. Beginning more than 15,000 years ago during an Ice Age, the first natives...

the base of the continental slope of North America about 95 kilometers (59 miles) off the coast just southwest of San Francisco, California. The seamount...

mountains of Norway and advanced on the North Sea. It's moraine formed the backbone of Denmark. Another glacier, less huge, crowned the mountains of Scotland...

the Danube, the Caucasus Mountains, and the Urals of Russia. Unlike the mountain ranges of North America, the mountain ranges of Europe do not follow predictable...

mountain belts formed by tectonic collision - this example is in the Appalachian Mountains (= result of a collision between Africa and North America during...

in many sites found throughout North America and into South America. Clovis man could be considered one of Americans earliest civilizations. It is not...

upper stages of the North American Upper Cambrian or Croixan Series. The Collier Shale, a geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and...

of regions did the European explorers find in North America? North America has four main natural regions: The Canadian Shield contains a vast area of...

continents of Laurasia crashed with Gondwanaland. What is now North America and Africa collided to form the southern Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachians...

of immigrants to America. North America has been divided into European immigrant territories based on control such as British America, French America...

important mountain range that divides the relatively small eastern region from the west. This eastern region, and the region within the mountains, has a...

South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia...

and subduction of the Farallon plate. The angle of subduction lowered, pushing mountain-building farther inland. The Rocky Mountains were created from...

Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hall, Covington. “Mountain Thinker and Experimenter,” in the Federal Writers'...