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Appalachian Mountains   /ˌæpəlˈeɪtʃən mˈaʊntənz/   Listen
Appalachian Mountains

noun
1.
A mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States.  Synonym: Appalachians.






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"Appalachian Mountains" Quotes from Famous Books



... after carefully studying the Allegheny or Appalachian mountains, have ascertained that the older fossiliferous rocks of that chain (from the Silurian to the Carboniferous inclusive) are not less than 42,000 feet thick, and if they were now superimposed on each other in the order ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Appalachian Mountains" :   Green Mountains, range, mountain range, chain of mountains, Catskill Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Allegheny Mountains, mountain chain, Great Smoky Mountains, Taconic Mountains, Catskills, range of mountains, eastern United States, Appalachia, chain, Alleghenies, east, Cumberland Mountains



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