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- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line abstract "The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present.The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain—the product of the Taconic orogeny—and the sandy, relatively flat outwash plain of the upper continental shelf, formed of unconsolidated Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments. Examples of the Fall Zone include the Potomac River's Great Falls and the rapids in Richmond, Virginia, where the James River falls across a series of rapids down to its own tidal estuary.Before navigation improvements such as locks, the fall line was generally the head of navigation on rivers due to their rapids or waterfalls, and the necessary portage around them. The Great Falls of the Potomac River is one example. Because of the commercial traffic, required labor and availability of water power to operate mills, numerous cities were founded at the intersection of rivers and the fall line. U.S. Route 1 links many of the fall line cities.In 1808, Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin noted the significance of the fall line as an obstacle to improved national communication and commerce between the Atlantic seaboard and the western river systems:The most prominent, though not perhaps the most insuperable obstacle in the navigation of the Atlantic rivers, consists in their lower falls, which are ascribed to a presumed continuous granite ridge, rising about one hundred and thirty feet above tide water. That ridge from New York to James River inclusively arrests the ascent of the tide; the falls of every river within that space being precisely at the head of the tide; pursuing thence southwardly a direction nearly parallel to the mountains, it recedes from the sea, leaving in each southern river an extent of good navigation between the tide and the falls. Other falls of less magnitude are found at the gaps of the Blue Ridge, through which the rivers have forced their passage...".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line length "1448409.6".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line part Georgia_(U.S._state).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line part New_Jersey.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line part The_Carolinas.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line thumbnail United_States_Fall_Line.jpg?width=300.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageExternalLink Marker.asp?Marker=193.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageExternalLink Patapsco%20LNB%20Stressor%20ID%20Report_04-20-09.pdf.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageID "32390537".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageLength "10171".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageOutDegree "106".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageRevisionID "708180009".
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Albert_Gallatin.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Appomattox_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_coastal_plain.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Augusta,_Georgia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Baltimore.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Brandywine_Creek_(Christina_River).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Camden,_South_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Fear_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Category:East_Coast_of_the_United_States.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Chattahoochee_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Cheraw,_South_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Christina_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Columbia,_South_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Columbus,_Georgia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Congaree_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Conowingo_Dam.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Delaware.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Delaware_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_United_States.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Elk_River_(Maryland).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Elkridge,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Elkton,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Ellicott_City,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Emporia,_Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Escarpment.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Fall_line.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Fault_(geology).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Fayetteville,_North_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Fredericksburg,_Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Georgia_(U.S._state).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Great_Falls_(Potomac_River).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Greenville,_North_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Gwynns_Falls.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Havre_de_Grace,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Herring_Run.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_76_(Ohio–New_Jersey).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink James_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Jones_Falls.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Laurel,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Macon,_Georgia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Meherrin_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Milledgeville,_Georgia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Neuse_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink New_Jersey.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Newark,_Delaware.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Occoquan,_Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Occoquan_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Ocmulgee_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Oconee_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Passaic_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Patapsco_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Paterson,_New_Jersey.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Patuxent_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Pee_Dee_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Perryville,_Maryland.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Petersburg,_Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Piedmont_(United_States).
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Portage.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Potomac_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Raleigh,_North_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Rappahannock_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Raritan_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Richmond,_Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Roanoke_Rapids,_North_Carolina.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Roanoke_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Savannah_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Schuylkill_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Sediment.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Stanton,_Delaware.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Susquehanna_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Taconic_orogeny.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Tar_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink The_Carolinas.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Trenton,_New_Jersey.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Route_1.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Virginia.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Wateree_River.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink White_Clay_Creek.
- Atlantic_Seaboard_fall_line wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:head_of_navigation.