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The Allegheny Front is a portion of the Escarpment that delineates the eastern edge of the Appalachian Plateau (locally called the Allegheny Plateau ) and the higher ranges of the Allegheny Mountains , separating them from the lower Alleghenies to the east. It is a part of the Ridge And Valley Appalachians and is conterminous with the Eastern Continental Divide in this region. GEOGRAPHY While the entire escarpment of which the Allegheny Front is a part stretches from (600 Meters ) in Pennsylvania to nearly 3,000 feet (900 meters) in West Virginia. GEOLOGY Historically, the front was the edge of a salt , in which Gondwana (modern Africa) impacted and overrode part of what is now the North American crustal plate, thrusting and piling up the ridge mountains of the physiographic regions to the east. 4 SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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