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Blue Ridge Mountains

Index Blue Ridge Mountains

The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. [1]

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  1. 123 relations: Adirondack Mountains, Alabama, Albany Congress, Alexander Spotswood, Alpine tundra, Alps, American black bear, Amphibian, Appalachian balds, Appalachian bogs, Appalachian Highlands, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian temperate rainforest, Appalachian Trail, Appalachian–Blue Ridge forests, Asheville, North Carolina, Baffin Island, Basement (geology), Berkshires, Black Mountains (North Carolina), Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, Blue Ridge Parkway, Bobcat, Brushy Mountains (North Carolina), Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Charlottesville, Virginia, Charnockite, Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest, Cherokee National Forest, Colony of Virginia, Cove (Appalachian Mountains), Coyote, Eastern United States, Endemism, Erosion, Fish, Foothills, Frederick, Maryland, Geochronology, George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, George Washington University, Georgia (U.S. state), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gneiss, Granite, Granitoid, Gray fox, Great Appalachian Valley, Great Balsam Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains, ... Expand index (73 more) »

  2. Appalachia
  3. Geography of Appalachia
  4. Mountain ranges of Georgia (U.S. state)
  5. Mountain ranges of Maryland
  6. Mountain ranges of North Carolina
  7. Mountain ranges of Pennsylvania
  8. Mountain ranges of South Carolina
  9. Mountain ranges of Tennessee
  10. Mountain ranges of Virginia
  11. Mountain ranges of West Virginia
  12. Physiographic regions of the United States
  13. Rappahannock River
  14. Regions of Tennessee
  15. Roanoke River
  16. Shenandoah River
  17. Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains
  18. Volcanoes of Virginia

Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately wide and covering about. Blue Ridge Mountains and Adirondack Mountains are physiographic provinces.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Albany Congress

The Albany Congress (June 19 – July 11, 1754), also known as the Albany Convention of 1754, was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the British colonies in British America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

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Alexander Spotswood

Alexander Spotswood (12 December 1676 – 7 June 1740) was a British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia; he is regarded as one of the most significant historical figures in British North American colonial history.

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Alpine tundra

Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate.

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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. Blue Ridge Mountains and Alps are physiographic provinces.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Appalachian balds

In the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, balds are mountain summits or crests covered primarily by thick vegetation of native grasses or shrubs occurring in areas where heavy forest growth would be expected.

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Appalachian bogs

Appalachian bogs are boreal or hemiboreal ecosystems, which occur in many places in the Appalachian Mountains, particularly the Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges.

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Appalachian Highlands

The Appalachian Highlands is one of eight government-defined physiographic divisions of the contiguous United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Highlands are geography of Appalachia and physiographic regions of the United States.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Mountains are Appalachia, Appalachian culture, geography of Appalachia, mountain ranges of Georgia (U.S. state), mountain ranges of Maryland, mountain ranges of North Carolina, mountain ranges of Pennsylvania, mountain ranges of South Carolina, mountain ranges of Tennessee, mountain ranges of Virginia, mountain ranges of West Virginia and physiographic regions of the United States.

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Appalachian temperate rainforest

The Appalachian temperate rainforest or Appalachian cloud forest is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States and is among the most biodiverse temperate regions in the world.

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Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Trail are Appalachia.

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Appalachian–Blue Ridge forests

The Appalachian–Blue Ridge forests are an ecoregion in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome, in the Eastern United States.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world.

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Basement (geology)

In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.

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Berkshires

The Berkshires are highlands located in western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut in the United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Berkshires are subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Black Mountains (North Carolina)

The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Black Mountains (North Carolina) are subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area encompassing the twenty-five westernmost counties of North Carolina, which are associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains. Blue Ridge Mountains and Blue Ridge National Heritage Area are geography of Appalachia.

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Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. Blue Ridge Mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway are Appalachian culture.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Brushy Mountains (North Carolina)

The Brushy Mountains are a mountain range located in northwestern North Carolina. Blue Ridge Mountains and Brushy Mountains (North Carolina) are mountain ranges of North Carolina and subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Charnockite

Charnockite is any orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock formed at high temperature and pressure, commonly found in granulite facies’ metamorphic regions, sensu stricto as an endmember of the charnockite series.

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Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest

The Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest in northern Georgia comprises two United States National Forests, the Oconee National Forest in eastern Georgia and the Chattahoochee National Forest located in the North Georgia Mountains.

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Cherokee National Forest

The Cherokee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the U.S. states of Tennessee and North Carolina that was created on June 14, 1920.

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Colony of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.

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Cove (Appalachian Mountains)

In the central and southern Appalachian Mountains of Eastern North America, a cove is a small valley between two ridge lines that is closed at one or both ends.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Eastern United States

The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Foothills

Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.

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Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

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Geochronology

Geochronology is the science of determining the age of rocks, fossils, and sediments using signatures inherent in the rocks themselves.

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George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests is an administrative entity combining two U.S. National Forests into one of the largest areas of public land in the Eastern United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and George Washington and Jefferson National Forests are Shenandoah River.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg is a borough in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Granitoid

A granitoid is a generic term for a diverse category of coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist predominantly of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar.

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Gray fox

The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America.

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Great Appalachian Valley

The Great Appalachian Valley, also called The Great Valley or Great Valley Region, is one of the major landform features of eastern North America. Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Appalachian Valley are geography of Appalachia.

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Great Balsam Mountains

The Great Balsam Mountains, or Balsam Mountains, are in the mountain region of western North Carolina, United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Balsam Mountains are mountain ranges of North Carolina.

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Great Smoky Mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains (Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains are Appalachian culture, geography of Appalachia, mountain ranges of North Carolina, mountain ranges of Tennessee and subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.

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Green Mountains

The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont and are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. Blue Ridge Mountains and Green Mountains are subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Grenville orogeny

The Grenville orogeny was a long-lived Mesoproterozoic mountain-building event associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia.

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Grouse

Grouse are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Maryland, United States.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Isoprene

Isoprene, or 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, is a common volatile organic compound with the formula CH2.

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John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer and songwriter.

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John Lederer

John Lederer was a 17th-century German physician and an explorer of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Johnson City, Tennessee

Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County.

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List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains

The following is a list of subranges within the Appalachian Mountains, a mountain range stretching ~2,050 miles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama, US. Blue Ridge Mountains and list of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains are subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Mass wasting

Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.

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Mount Mitchell

Mount Mitchell (Attakulla in Cherokee) is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River.

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Mount Oglethorpe

Mount Oglethorpe is a mountain located in Pickens County, Georgia, United States.

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Mount Washington

Mount Washington, is an ultra-prominent mountain in the state of New Hampshire.

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Nantahala National Forest

The Nantahala National Forest is the largest of the four national forests in North Carolina, lying in the mountains and valleys of western North Carolina.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York–New Jersey Highlands

The New York – New Jersey Highlands is a geological formation composed primarily of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rock running from the Delaware River near Musconetcong Mountain, northeast through the Skylands Region of New Jersey along the Bearfort Ridge and the Ramapo Mountains, Sterling Forest, Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks in New York, to the Hudson River at Storm King Mountain.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter and river otter, is a semiaquatic mammal that lives only on the North American continent throughout most of Canada, along the coasts of the United States and its inland waterways.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Oak–hickory forest

Oak–hickory forest is a type of North American forest ecosystem, and an ecoregion of the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome.

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Ocoee salamander

The ocoee salamander (Desmognathus ocoee) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

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Peak bagging

Peak bagging or hill bagging is an activity in which hikers, climbers, and mountaineers attempt to reach a collection of summits, published in the form of a list.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Pennsylvania are Appalachia.

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Petrology

Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form.

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Physiographic regions of the United States

The physiographic regions of the contiguous United States comprise 8 divisions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections.

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Pisgah National Forest

Pisgah National Forest is a National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Powhatan

The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah.

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Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands division. Blue Ridge Mountains and Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians are geography of Appalachia, physiographic provinces, physiographic regions of the United States, regions of Tennessee and subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands)

Roan Mountain is a mountain straddling the North Carolina/Tennessee border in the Unaka Range of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the Southeastern United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands) are Appalachian culture.

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Roanoke River

The Roanoke River runs long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Shenandoah National Park

Shenandoah National Park (often) is a national park in the Eastern United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east.

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Shenandoah Valley

The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are Shenandoah River.

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Silurian

The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.

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Six Nations land cessions

The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.

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Songbird

A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania)

South Mountain is the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountain range into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Blue Ridge Mountains and South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania) are mountain ranges of Maryland, mountain ranges of Pennsylvania and subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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South Mountains (North Carolina)

The South Mountains are an ancient and deeply eroded mountain range in western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Mountains and South Mountains (North Carolina) are mountain ranges of North Carolina and subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest

The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest is an ecoregion of the temperate coniferous forests biome, a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.

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Southern Sixers

In peak bagging terminology in the United States, the Southern Sixers refers to the group of mountains in the southern states of North Carolina and Tennessee with elevations above sea level of at least six thousand feet (1829 m).

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Southwest Mountains

The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered on Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles (50 km) to the west. Blue Ridge Mountains and Southwest Mountains are mountain ranges of Virginia.

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Southwest Virginia

Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth. Blue Ridge Mountains and Southwest Virginia are geography of Appalachia.

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Take Me Home, Country Roads

"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. Blue Ridge Mountains and Take Me Home, Country Roads are Shenandoah River.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and Tennessee are Appalachia.

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Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition

Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition is a book by John R. Finger published in 2001 by Indiana University Press.

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Terrane

In geology, a terrane (in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

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Tree line

The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not.

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Tutelo language

Tutelo, also known as Tutelo–Saponi, is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouan languages that were originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West Virginia in the United States.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Upstate South Carolina

The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, is a region of the U.S. state of South Carolina, comprising the northwesternmost area of the state. Blue Ridge Mountains and Upstate South Carolina are geography of Appalachia.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Weathering

Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Blue Ridge Mountains and West Virginia are Appalachia and geography of Appalachia.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.

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Wild turkey

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes.

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Zircon

Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates and is a source of the metal zirconium.

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See also

Appalachia

Geography of Appalachia

Mountain ranges of Georgia (U.S. state)

Mountain ranges of Maryland

Mountain ranges of North Carolina

Mountain ranges of Pennsylvania

Mountain ranges of South Carolina

Mountain ranges of Tennessee

Mountain ranges of Virginia

Mountain ranges of West Virginia

Physiographic regions of the United States

Rappahannock River

Regions of Tennessee

Roanoke River

Shenandoah River

Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains

Volcanoes of Virginia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains

Also known as Blue Ridge (ecoregion), Blue Ridge Escarpment, Blue Ridge belt, Blueridge Mountains, Fauna of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Flora and fauna of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Geology of the Blue Ridge Mountains, History of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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