Appalachian Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachians are a Paleozoic kingdom
forested fold rump mountain range in eastern North America. You hand
almost from the Saint Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico and are about
3200 km long and up to 600 km wide. They enclose the
Piedmont Plateau, the Blue Ridge, MT. Mitchell, the Appalachian Long Valley
and a series of wooded ridges and valleys and the
Appalachian Plateau (Cumberland to the south and Allegheny to the north).

The Appalachian Mountains are rich in natural resources such as coal, iron ore, petroleum
and are a popular tourist destination.
With an age of about 400 million years, the Appalachian Mountains
to the oldest mountain ranges on earth.

Highest Peaks

Mount Mitchell, 2037 m (North Carolina)

Clingman`s Dome, 2025 m (North Carolina, Tennessee)

Mount Washington, 1931 m (New Hampshire)

Mount Macy, 1629 m (New York)

Mount Katahdin, 1606 m, (Maine)

Mont-Jacques-Cartier, 1268 m, (Québec)

Mount Rogers, 1746 m (Virginia)

Geography:

The Appalachian Mountains are part of an even larger system of mountain ranges,
which continues in Scotland (Caledonia), Norway and Greenland
and severed by the breaking up of the North Atlantic. The Foothills
of the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Mississippi to Canada (Newfoundlands
Long Range Mountains) on the east side of the North American continent,
very much like this the Rocky Mountains on the west side of the continent
do from Mexico to Alaska. This constellation means that the cold
Air from the north, coming from Hudson Bay, south over the Gulf of
Mexico meets warm air and especially in the American Midwest
the well-known tornadoes with some catastrophic ones effects can form.

Tourism

The Appalachian Mountains offer good recreational opportunities such as:

The Appalachian Trail - one of the longest hiking trails in the world, that runs through the entire Appalachian Mountains.

The Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway, a scenic Appalachian highway in southern Appalachia.

The Natural Bridge in Virginia, a 66m high and 27m wide natural bridge. In some lists it was counted among the seven natural wonders of the world.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south.