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	Cumberland Plateau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Pennyrile in the south, there are many spectacular cliffs, gorges, rockhouses, natural bridges, and waterfalls.
		The sedimentary rocks that compose both plateaus are of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian geological age, composed of near shore sediments washed westward from the original Appalachian Mountains.
		Though the plateau is not composed of true mountains (although that is the local name for them), and nowhere is very high, it has some of the most rugged terrain in the eastern United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cumberland_Plateau (402 words)

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		The Cumberland Plateau thrust sheet is the westernmost thrust sheet of the southeastern Appalachians.
		The Cumberland Plateau Thrust sheet is dominated by thrust faults, having approximately 10 near the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee (Hatcher, et al, 1993).
		The Sequatchie Valley anticline is the westernmost fold in the southeastern Appalachians.
	www.geo.ua.edu /fieldtrips/dunlap.html (1288 words)

	Cumberland Plateau. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Cumberland Plateau, Cumberland Mountains, southwestern division of the Appalachian Mtn.
		On the east the plateau rises sharply from the Great Valley of E Tennessee; on the west the slope is rough and broken.
		The plateau is the source of the Cumberland R. and several tributaries of the Tennessee R. The surrounding region, which is sparsely populated, yields various minerals, such as coal, limestone, and sandstones.
	www.bartleby.com /69/34/C12334.html (164 words)

	Save the Cumberland Plateau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While shortleaf and Virginia pine are native to the Cumberland Plateau, hardwoods such as oak and hickory have long dominated the area's old-growth forests.
		The Cumberland Plateau ecosystem, which evolved undisturbed by glaciers for hundreds of millions of years, has given rise to dozens of mussel and crayfish species found nowhere else on earth.
		The Cumberland Plateau watershed serves as the headwaters for the Tennessee River, the Elk River, the Duck River, the Sequatchie River, the Paint Rock River and the Collins River.
	www.savebiogems.org /cumberland/fastfacts.asp (250 words)

	Cumberland River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before the arrival of European settlers, the Cumberland River was known by locals as the Warioto or the Shawanon.
		Cumberland Falls, a 68-foot waterfall on this section of river, is one of the largest waterfalls in the eastern United States, and the only place in the Western Hemisphere where a moonbow can be seen.
		Dams at various locations of the Cumberland River have created large reservoirs for recreation such as Lake Barkley in western Kentucky and Lake Cumberland (the deepest lake in the Tennessee and Cumberland river valleys) in southern Kentucky, and Old Hickory Lake to the east of Nashville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cumberland_River (300 words)

	Cumberland Plateau -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The plateau is 40 to 50 miles (65 to 80 km) wide and lies between the Appalachian Ridge and Valley region to the east and the rolling plains to the west.
		It merges with the Allegheny Plateau on the north and...
		The northern section of the plateau is known as the Catskill Mountains; the center, as the Allegheny Plateau; the south, as the Cumberland Plateau.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028186?tocId=9028186 (797 words)

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		The Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commission, or PDC, is one of Virginia's 21 planning district commissions, and was created in 1968 to promote regional cooperation, help coordinate the activities and policies of member local governments, and provide planning assistance to local governments in all their activities.
		The Cumberland Plateau PDC staff is always interested in ideas for projects in the district and has over 200 years of combined staff experience in grant writing.
		The Cumberland Plateau PDC is a State Data Center affiliate, meaning it receives data from other agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the Virginia Employment Commission and the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics, just to name a few.
	www.seva.net /~townsend/cppdc/faqs.html (788 words)

	Appalachian Plateaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The upturned edge of the Appalachian Plateaus, where the horizontal beds of the plateau give way to the folded beds of the Valley and Ridge, is observable in certain places.
		The Appalachian Plateaus are composed of two major plateaus, the Allegheny Plateau and the Cumberland Plateau.
		A major distinction between the two plateaus is that the northern Allegheny surface was glaciated during the Pleistocene; the southern Cumberland surface was not.
	www.runet.edu /~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG202/physprov/applat.html (249 words)

	Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commission (CPPDC) - Population Data
		The counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, along with the northern portions of Russell and Tazewell Counties, lie in the Cumberland Plateau which is, in turn, a part of the Appalachian Plateau.
		The remaining region of the District, comprising the greater portion of Russell and Tazewll Counties, lies in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachian Highlands.
		This belt, consisting of alternate valleys and ridges is bordered on the south by the Clinch Mountains and on the north by the Cumberland Plateau.
	www.seva.net /~townsend/cppdc/regional_population.html (220 words)

	Cumberland Plateau Tornado Outbreak on November 10, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On November 10th, the ingredients for a major outbreak of tornadoes came together across the Cumberland Plateau region of east Tennessee (topography map).
		Numerous supercells (thunderstorms with strong rotation) developed across the region with a total of seven tornadoes (tornado track map) reported across the northern Cumberland Plateau region, six of which occurred in the Morristown County Warning Area.
		Numerous supercells continued to develop across the northern Cumberland Plateau later in the evening, and another tornado warning was issued for Morgan County at 8:12 pm EST.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /mrx/svrevnts/nov10tornadoes/nov10tornado.htm (1008 words)

	Sherpa Guides \| Tennessee \| The Tennessee Mountains \| Upper Cumberland Plateau
		The Cumberland Plateau is the name given to the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau that extends from the western border of New York through Tennessee into central Alabama.
		The western edge of the Cumberland Plateau is irregular and undefined because the Cumberland, Elk, and Duck rivers and their tributaries have reshaped it.
		The Upper Cumberland Plateau is bracketed on the west by the western escarpment of the plateau; on the east by the eastern escarpment consisting of Walden Ridge and Cumberland Mountain; on the south by Interstate 40; and on the north by the Tennessee/Kentucky/Virginia state lines.
	www.sherpaguides.com /tennessee/upper_cumberland_plateau (1896 words)

	Landscape Analysis Lab - Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Native forests on the Cumberland Plateau, as defined for the purposes of this study, consist predominately of a mixture of oak (Quercus spp.) and hickory (Carya spp.) species, along with other hardwood species.
		The Cumberland Plateau has some of the highest predicted herpifaunal diversity of anywhere in the state and one of the most diverse communities of woody plants in the eastern United States.
		The impact of land use change on these habitats on the Cumberland Plateau is unknown, and we recommend further research on the importance and fate of these habitats.
	lal.sewanee.edu /research/assessment.html (2705 words)

	TN State Parks: Cumberland Mountain State Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cumberland Mountain State Park is situated on the Cumberland Plateau, a segment of the great upland, which extends from western New York to central Alabama.
		It is said to be the largest timbered plateau in America.
		This 1,720-acre park was acquired in 1938 as a project of the Farm Security Administration to provide a recreational area for some 250 families selected to homestead on the Cumberland Plateau.
	www.state.tn.us /environment/parks/parks/CumberlandMtn (202 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Several community groups concerned over the depletion of the Cumberland Plateau forests assembled together at the Health and Value of the Cumberland Plateau Forest public meeting held at the Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.
		Among the organizations who came out to the event were Cumberland Green Coalition, which sponsored the meeting; Save Our Cumberland Mountains, a non-profit organization; Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning; and the Division of Natural Heritage, which is a part of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
		Jonathon Davis, director at the University of the South's Landscape Analysis Laboratory, was invited by Louise Gorenflo, Cumberland Green's convener, to address questions that have been raised concerning the Cumberland Plateau forests and to increase the communities' understanding of the rare, natural community where we live.
	www.crossville-chronicle.com /GladeSun/NewsPage/cumbforest.html (823 words)

	The Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee
		But even if you ride, you may be unaware there are stables on the plateau with 100 miles of trails on 12,000 acres.
		Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland County page for more info on many of these counties.
		The larger towns on the mountain are Crossville, to the middle in Cumberland County, and Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga.
	plateauproperties.com /tncp.html (482 words)

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		Wild woods are dense and riotous with lush green growth, but around the Cumberland Plateau, paper companies and their timber suppliers are converting forests into lines of loblolly pines.
		While the plateau is carpeted with undergrowth, no bushes grow in the alleyways between the pines -- thanks to generous doses of herbicide -- and foxes, songbirds and the eastern cougar -- on the verge of regional extinction -- are left without food or cover.
		Right now, much of the forests in the Cumberland Plateau BioGem -- stretching through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama -- remain largely wild, but the heat is on throughout the South to clearcut these outstanding forests and replace them with tree plantations.
	www.savebiogems.org /cumberland (407 words)

	The Cumberland Plateau (from Georgia) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Cumberland is presently part of the administrative county of Cumbria.
		Continental plateaus, along with their enclosed basins, account for about 45 percent of the Earth's land surface.
		The Loess Plateau takes its name from the term for the thick deposits of windblown soil that originate thousands of miles away on the steppes of Central Asia.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201489?tocId=201489&ct= (931 words)

	Environment Environmental South Cumberland Plateau Tennessee TN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sewanee study examined a seven-county, 620,000-acre portion of the Cumberland Plateau in Southern Tennessee.
		The heart of the South Cumberland, 80 miles southeast of Nashville and 50 miles northwest of Chattanooga, is the South Cumberland State Recreation Area – Tennessee’s largest state wilderness park.
		During the 30 years since South Cumberland first became a park, the Cumberland Plateau has experienced unprecedented changes and the rate of change is increasing dramatically.
	www.friendsofscsra.org /environment.htm (2131 words)

	7/12/2005 - The Future Of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau - Opinion - Chattanoogan.com
		The Cumberland Plateau area was basically unpopulated by the native American Indians, whose towns and settlements were centered along the main river and tributaries of the Tennessee and Cumberland Valleys.
		The Cumberland Plateau’s land base of 2.9 million acres is currently 75% forested, and has maintained that percentage since 1950.
		The vast majority of the hardwood forests in Tennessee — whether on the Cumberland Plateau, in the Cherokee National Forest, or in the river bottoms of central and western Tennessee — are typically sixty to eighty years old.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_69397.asp (1664 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Winter 2004 - The Tennessee Tree Massacre
		In the last four years, an estimated 50 to 70 percent of the pines planted on the plateau have been devoured by the southern pine beetle.
		The entire South has been ravaged by the worst outbreak in its history of this native predator of pine trees, caused by the tremendous increase in the amount of pine available for it to eat on the industry plantations that have replaced the native forest.
		Nearly 90 percent of the Cumberland Plateau is in private hands and exempt from all but a few government regulations.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/04win/cumberland1.asp (596 words)

	Sherpa Guides \| Georgia \| Mountains \| The Cumberland Plateau, Lookout Mountain, Pigeon Mountain, and Little River, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From a physiographic standpoint, the flat-topped mountains of the Cumberland Plateau are quite different from the narrow Armuchee Ridges beyond the Chickamauga Valley to the east.
		Geologically, the Cumberland Plateau is transitional between the flat-lying sedimentary beds of central Tennessee and the ridges and valleys to the east in Georgia, which show more intensive folding and faulting.
		The flat top of the Cumberland Plateau is sandstone which, while harder than limestone or shale, has nevertheless been carved and sculpted for millions of years by wind and water.
	www.sherpaguides.com /georgia/mountains/cumberland_plateau/cumberland_plateau.html (13241 words)

	Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground
		The Cumberland Plateau, a southwestern part of the Appalachia Mountain chain, extends northeast to southwest through parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Northern Alabama.
		Black Mountain Kentucky is the highest point at 4,125 ft. The plateau averages 52 inches of rainfall, comfortable summer temperatures at 82 F. and moderate winter temperatures of 52 F. The Cumberland Plateau, a southwestern part of the
		plateau is a major drainage basin to the Tennessee River and its tributaries.
	www.airstreamtcpc.org (231 words)

	Blue Ridge Country
		Long recognized as an ideal location for such outdoor recreation as horseback riding, hiking and whitewater rafting and canoeing, the Big South Fork region of the Cumberland Plateau attracted the interests of preservationists in the late 1960s.
		Only the Tennessee and Kentucky portion of the tableland where the Big South Fork NRRA lies is called the Cumberland Plateau; to the north, where mountains still stand on the tableland, it's called the Alleghenies.
		As the plateau surface gave way to the downward erosion of the river, the sandstone at the edges resisted the river's lateral forces.
	www.blueridgecountry.com /sfork/sfork.html (2393 words)

	Is Cumberland Plateau among most endangered? - Saturday, 02/28/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The national environmental group maintains a list it calls at-risk ''biogems'' and blamed this year's addition of the plateau on the pulp and paper industry, which it said is a major threat to the forested area.
		The part of the Cumberland Plateau and Southern Appalachians listed by NRDC has one of the highest rates of globally rare plants and animals in the world and is centered in Tennessee.
		The plateau has been for several years the focus of local and regional environmental groups who claim that increased clear-cutting of large chunks of hardwood forests is ravaging the ecology and is an eyesore for tourists.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/04/02/47534580.shtml?Element_ID=47534580 (839 words)

	Rape of the Cumberland Plateau
		The Cumberland Plateau has the highest concentration of caves and of cave-dwelling invertebrate species in North America.
		The plateau is also a major nexus for migratory birds, a pit stop for many species as they wend their way back and forth from South America or the Caribbean to the Canadian boreal, as well as the home of many year-round inhabitants.
		Called “An Assessment of Forest Change on the Cumberland Plateau in Southern Tennessee.” It is the first scientifically rigorous quantification of the havoc that the paper industry has been wreaking, going back to l981, in the seven southernmost of the 16 counties on the Tennessee part of the plateau.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /dispatch20/d20_2.html (1503 words)

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