The Appalachian Plateau is the western part of the Appalachian mountains, stretching from New York to Alabama. A map can be found at http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_3.html in which the plateau is colored purple. The plateau is a second level United States physiographic region.

From the east the escarpment that forms the edge of the plateau has the appearance of a mountain range. found online at However, technically it is an eroded plain of sedimentary rock not mountains. found online at coalfield formed during the Pennsylvanian Period. found online at [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0471598178&id=VllQ1fvzzaoC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=%22Appalachian+Plateau%22&sig=ZZsTSY3JCt267bfvjDOLzB48s4U" target="_blank" >^* The surface of the plateau slopes gently to the northwest and merges imperceptibly into the Interior Plains.

The main physiographic sections (generally ordered from the northeast to the southwest) of the plateau are the named the Mohawk section, the Catskill section, the southern New York section, the Allegheny Plateau section, the Kanawha section, the Cumberland Plateau section, and the Cumberland Mountains section.

See also

• Geology of the Appalachians

References