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Fall line - Wikipedia A fall line (or fall zone) is the area where an upland region and a coastal plain meet and is noticeable especially the place rivers cross it, with resulting rapids or waterfalls
Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line - Wikipedia The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain—the product of the Taconic orogeny —and the sandy, relatively flat alluvial plain of the upper continental shelf, formed of unconsolidated Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments
Fall Line - New Georgia Encyclopedia The fall line is a geological boundary, about twenty miles wide, running northeast across Georgia from Columbus to Augusta It is a gently sloping region that rapidly loses elevation from the north to the south, thereby creating a series of waterfalls
What Is A Fall Line, And Where Do They Occur? - WorldAtlas Fall lines typically are themselves an indicator of an area's underlying geology and its topography above ground A fall line feature identifier would be light-colored soil in flats area with almost no hills, sometimes with the presence of exposed cliffs
Fall line | Coastal Plains, Rivers Mountains | Britannica Fall line, line of numerous waterfalls, as at the edge of a plateau, where streams pass from resistant rocks to a plain of weak ones below Such a line also marks the head of navigation, or the inland limit that ships can reach from a river’s mouth; because navigation is interrupted both upstream
Fall Line - National Geographic Society A fall line is the imaginary line between two parallel rivers, at the point where rivers plunge, or fall, at roughly the same elevation Fall lines are often located where different elevation regions, such as coastal and piedmont, meet
Fall Line - Encyclopedia. com FALL LINE, a line running approximately parallel to the Atlantic coast and dividing the eastern Atlantic coastal plain, or tidewater, from the western Appalachian foothill region, or Piedmont This natural boundary was created by the difference in elevation and geologic structure of the two areas
What is the fall line and how does it affect human activity? A fall line is a line of waterfalls and rapids along rivers where they descend from higher, harder terrain to lower, softer terrain, marking the boundary where navigation is limited and water power is available
The Fall Line - Kids Discover From Georgia to Massachusetts, these and other cities are lined up like a string of stars along an important geologic boundary called the Fall Line The Fall Line is where the hard rock core of the piedmont and Appalachians meets the soft sediment of the coastal plain
Fall line (topography) - Wikipedia A fall line refers to the line down a mountain or hill which is most directly downhill; that is, the direction a ball or other body would accelerate if it were free to move on the slope under gravity