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	RIDGE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Stratigraphic ridge: In places such as the Ridge-and-valley_Appalachians, very long, very even, very straight ridges are formed due to the fact that they're the uneroded remaining edges of the more resistant strata that were folded laterally.
		These ridges usually represent slightly harder rock, but not always -- they're often simply due to the fact that there were larger joint spaces where the valleys formed, or other chance occurrences.
		Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size.
	www.witwib.com /index.php?s=ridge (318 words)

	West Virginia - Open Encyclopedia
		The state is sometimes referred to as The Mountain State, which is a bit of a misnomer, as the only true mountains are the belt of Ridge-and-valley Appalachians along the eastern border with Virginia.
		In the ridge and valley area along the eastern border, the valleys are wide and there are some belts of rich soil which are extensively farmed.
		There is little agriculture in the plateau region, since the topography is primarily narrow V-shaped valleys and ridges with little bottom land.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Wv (1316 words)

	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
		Taps (Feature film, 1981) (also filmed at adjacent Valley Forge Military Academy and other nearby locations)
		The city is the central city for the Delaware Valley metropolitan area.
		Colleges and universities in the vicinity of Philadelphia include Bryn Mawr College, located in Bryn Mawr; Haverford College; and Villanova University, located in Villanova, all three located northwest of Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Main Line; Swarthmore College, located in Swarthmore; and Widener University, located in Chester.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/p/ph/philadelphia__pennsylvania.html (2539 words)

	Tennessee - Biocrawler definition:Tennessee - Biocrawler
		During World War II, Oak Ridge was selected as a US Department of Energy national laboratory, one of the principal sites for the Manhattan Project's production and isolation of weapons-grade fissile material.
		The need to create work for the unemployed during the Depression, the desire for rural electrification, and the desire to control the annual spring floods on the Tennessee River drove the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public utility, in 1933.
		The Tennessee Valley Authority is based in Knoxville.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Tennessee (1667 words)

	Environmental Education in Georgia - Ecology
		They are: Piedmont, Southeastern Plains, Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley, Southwestern Appalachians and Southern Coastal Plain.
		According to Sustaining Biodiversity in the Southern Appalachians (Boone and Aplet, 1994), the national forests and parks of the Southern Appalachians are home to more than 80 percent of the vertebrates and plants native to the region.
		Georgia's small rivers and streams, as well as the forests of the Appalachian Mountains, are part of the World Wildlife Fund's The Global 200 - 200 different ecoregions that together represent many of the richest, rarest, and most biologically important and outstanding examples of the Earth's diverse habitats.
	www.eeingeorgia.org /page.asp?itemid=5452&siteid=4863 (394 words)

	Delaware Valley
		Delaware Valley is the name of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Atlantic City, New Jersey-Wilmington, Delaware Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/d/de/delaware_valley.html (52 words)

	Parkersburg,_West_Virginia
		Ohio Valley College and a campus of West Virginia University are located in Parkersburg.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Parkersburg,_West_Virginia (397 words)

	Harrisonburg,_Virginia
		Harrisonburg is located in the Shenandoah Valley and is home of James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Harrisonburg,_Virginia (510 words)

	Articles - Sandstone
		Sometimes these sandstones are termed "orthoquartzites", e.g., the Tuscarora Quartzite of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians.
	www.sinoz.com /articles/Sandstone (436 words)

	Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians-Sample Ride
		This little valley has mountains on each side, and the scenery is spectacular.
		As you ride north, the craggy ridge of Johns Mountain looks down at you.
		From the small wooden observation deck, look back up the valley through which you've just traveled.
	www.milestonepress.com /html/sampm1.html (1119 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Geophysical studies of large blind thrust, Valley and Ridge province, central Appalachians
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6129454 - Geophysical studies of large blind thrust, Valley and Ridge province, central Appalachians
		Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6129454 (92 words)

	Landscape Ecology - VT
		ws Appalachians - Ridge and Valley Province, Virginia [ left ]
		ws Appalachians - Ridge and Valley Province, Virginia [ right ]
	www.lar.arch.vt.edu /resources/courses/LAR-2144/PAGE10.HTML (22 words)

	Amazon.com: Motorcycle Adventures In the Central Appalachians: Virginia's Blue Ridge, Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia Highlands (Motor Cycle Adventure): Books: Hawk Hagebak
		Motorcycle Adventures In the Central Appalachians: Virginia's Blue Ridge, Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia Highlands (Motor Cycle Adventure) (Paperback)
		Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: Asheville Nc, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Nc High Country by Hawk Hagebak
		Blue Ridge Parkway Guide Volume 1: Rockfish Gap to Grandfather Mountain by William G. Lord
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1889596175?v=glance (420 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		The eastern portion of the Sedimentary Appalachians region features a series of great folds of sedimentary rock which are responsible for the characteristic topography of the Valley and Ridge Province.
		Because the "Sedimentary Appalachians" encompass such a broad region, discussion in this text is limited to the Valley and Ridge Province located on the "western fringe" of the New York City region.
		West of the Valley and Ridge Province is the Appalachian Plateau, a vast region underlain by nearly flat-lying sedimentary rock.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/valleyandridge/sedimentaryapp.htm (420 words)

	The Southern Appalachians - the Alleghanian and Hercynian
		From West to East the Southern Appalachians passes from folded and thrust passive margin sediments of the Valley and Ridge into variably metamorphosed rift and passive margin rocks (Western Blue Ridge) as young as Mississippian, overthrust in places by Ordovician greenstones and felsic volcanic rocks.
		A-24 Hatcher, R.D. The southern Appalachians: a thrust dominated orogen: - Brevard fault was reactivated as an out-of-sequence brittle thrust during the Alleghanian, coeval with the emplacement of the Blue ridge- Piedmont thrust sheet.
		A-31 Bream, B.R., et al., Paragneiss geochemistry and preliminary ion micorprobe geochronology of detrital zircons from the southern Appalachian crystalline core: - Psammitic paragneisses eastern Blue ridge and western Inner Piedmont (Chaga belt) have ND model ages of 1.6-1.7 and Grenville 1.0-1.3 zircon core ages; late Proterozic ages are absent.
	instruct.uwo.ca /earth-sci/300b-001/sapp.htm (420 words)

	Appalachians
		My work in the southern Appalachians is split between the metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge Province and the sedimentary rocks of the Valley and Ridge and Plateau.
		The Blue Ridge mountains in the southern Appalachians presumably reached their peak elevation at the end of the Alleghanian orogeny, about 270 million years ago, yet the mountains are still high today.
		We're also working on a new project that addresses the problem of the anomalously high topographic relief in the southern Appalachian highlands and the possible linkage with linear, post-orogenic fracture zones.
	www.unc.edu /~kgstewar/web_pages/appalachians.html (420 words)

	New Jersey Cabin Rentals & Cottage Rental, Cottage Canada - USA
		They are the Ridge and Valley province, also called the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Section or the Newer Appalachians; the New Jersey Highlands, a portion of the broader physiographic region called the New England province; the Piedmont; and the Atlantic portion of the Coastal Plain.
		Geologically similar to New England, the highlands consist of a series of flat-topped ridges composed of gneiss (a banded rock created by heat and pressure) and separated from one another by narrow valleys running in a general northeast-southwest direction.
		The floor of the valley is underlain by limestone with irregular ridges of shale outcrops.
	www.cottage-canada-usa.com /new_jersey.htm (938 words)

	Ridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stratigraphic ridge: In places such as the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, very long, very even, very straight ridges are formed due to the fact that they're the uneroded remaining edges of the more resistant strata that were folded laterally.
		This type of ridge is generally somewhat random in orientation, often changing direction frequently, often with knobs at intervals on the ridge top.
		These ridges usually represent slightly harder rock, but not always -- they are often simply because there were larger joint spaces where the valleys formed, or other chance occurrences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ridge (204 words)

	Ridge-and-valley Appalachians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ridge-and-valley Appalachians are a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending from northern New Jersey westward into Pennsylvania and southward into Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.
		They form a broad arc between the Piedmont and the Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ridge-and-valley_Appalachians (204 words)

	Remote Sensing Tutorial Page 6-3
		The fold belt of the Valley and Ridge Province is distinctive.
		The Appalachian Plateau occupies the western (left) part of the image and continues for several hundred kilometers into eastern Ohio.
		Our odyssey proceeds west into the heart of the Appalachian fold belt that dominates the land forms of central Pennsyvania.
	rst.gsfc.nasa.gov /Sect6/Sect6_3.html (204 words)

	Wireless Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It seems to have been coined around 1990 by Ted Rappaport while he was a professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, alluding to his research program in wireless communications and the location of Blacksburg between the Appalachians and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
		Wireless Valley is also a nickname and an attempt to describe the cluster of companies in the information technology industry that located in northern Stockholm, Sweden.
		He later founded Wireless Valley® Communications, which trademarked the phrase "Wireless Valley" in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wireless_Valley (192 words)

	Shenandoah River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principal tributary of the Potomac, the river and its tributaries drain several lateral valleys in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, mostly in northwestern Virginia.
		The Shenandoah River is a tributary of the Potomac River, approximately 150 mi (241 km) long, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.
		Canoeing on the Shenandoah River, near Winchester, Virginia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shenandoah_River (219 words)

	Breakneck Ridge
		Stratigraphic Ridg : In places such as the Rige -and-valley Appalachians, very long, very even, very straight Ridgo s are formed due tothe fact that they're the uneroded remaining edges of the more resistant strata that were folded laterally.
		These Ridge s usually represent slightly harder rock, but not always -- they're often simply due to thefact that there were larger joint spaces where the valleys formed, or other chance occurrences.
		A ridge is a geological feature that features a continuous elevational crest for some distance.
	www.thesonars.com /web/36350-breakneck.ridge.html (357 words)

	Oak Ridge Tennessee
		Oak Ridge lies in an Eastern Tennessee valley between the Cumberland Mountains and southern Appalachians.
		From its headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORAU serves the government, academia, and the private sector in important areas of science and technology.
		A private, not-for-profit corporation, ORAU manages and operates the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the U.S. Department of Energy.
	www.discoveret.org /ortnscso/ortn.htm (326 words)

	Oak Ridge, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politically it is part of East Tennessee; physiographically it is in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians.
		The government projects at Oak Ridge are reduced in size and scope, the infrastructure that was new in the 1940s is aging, and the once-isolated city is now incorporated into the Knoxville metropolitan area.
		It is worth noting that Oak Ridge National Laboratory is still the largest multipurpose lab in the National Laboratory system, and is also home to the Spallation Neutron Source, a 1.4 Billion dollar project slated for completion by 2010.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee (1288 words)

	Maggie Valley, Waynesville, Lake Junaluska, and Canton North Carolina Travel Info - The Haywood County Tourist Development Authority in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina
		The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders along 46 miles of the highest ridges in the Appalachians, wandering back and forth across the county line between Haywood, Jackson and Transylvania counties.
		Between Bear Pen Gap, MP 427.6, and Bear Trail Ridge, MP 430.4, there are 10 recorded spots named after the bears that used to be hunted here in great numbers.
		At MP 439.7, Pinnacle Ridge Tunnel’s 750 feet reach an end just before Saunook, with a view of Waynesville below from a height of 6,000 feet (MP 440.9 also overlooks the town).
	www.smokeymountains.net /theblueridgeparkway.html (473 words)

	Oak Ridge Tennessee
		Oak Ridge lies in an Eastern Tennessee valley between the Cumberland Mountains and southern Appalachians.
		From its headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORAU serves the government, academia, and the private sector in important areas of science and technology.
		The secret city quickly became one of the world's foremost centers of research and development and the advanced applications of high technology.
	www.discoveret.org /ortnscso/ortn.htm (326 words)

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