Description: A map from 1911 of the Older Appalachian mountain system in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, showing the four Triassic Age crystalline prongs of the Older Appalachians which enclose the New York–Virginia area of Newark rocks. The map shows the Appalachian Plateaus, Newer Appalachians to the west, Piedmont Plateau, Atlantic Coastal Plain, the Carlisle, Trenton, Reading, and Manhattan prongs of Newark rocks, and is keyed to show post–Newark, sedimentary, trap rock, and pre–Newark rock formation areas.
Place Names: Atlantic States, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, Appalachian Mountains, Atlantic Ocean, East Coas
ISO Topic Categories: boundaries,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
location
Keywords: Triassic Formations in the Older Appalachians, physical, political, kGeology, physical features,
geological, major political subdivisions, boundaries,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
location, Unknown, 1911
Source: Isaiah Bowman, Ph. D, Forest Physiography (New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1911) 630
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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