Geologic Terms and Geographic Divisions
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Division | Province | Section |
Great Plains. | Missouri Plateau, glaciated. | |
Missouri Plateau, unglaciated. | ||
Black Hills. | ||
High Plains. | ||
Plains Border. | ||
Colorado Piedmont. | ||
Raton. | ||
Pecos Valley. | ||
Edwards Plateau. | ||
Central Texas. | ||
Interior Highlands | Ozark Plateaus | Springfield-Salem Plateaus. |
Boston "Mountains." | ||
Ouachita ||Arkansas Valley. | ||
Ouachita Mountains. | ||
Rocky Mountain System | Southern Rocky Mountains. | |
Wyoming Basin. | ||
Middle Rocky Mountains. | ||
Northern Rocky Mountains. | ||
Intermontane Plateaus | Columbia Plateau | Walla Walla Plateau. |
Blue Mountain. | ||
Payette. | ||
Snake River Plain. | ||
Harney. | ||
Colorado Plateaus | High Plateaus of Utah. | |
Uinta Basin. | ||
Canyon Lands. | ||
Navajo. | ||
Grand Canyon. | ||
Datil. | ||
Basin and Range | Great Basin. | |
Sonoran Desert. | ||
Salton Trough. | ||
Mexican Highland. | ||
Sacramento. | ||
Pacific Mountain System | Cascade-Sierra Mountains | Northern Cascade Mountains. |
Middle Cascade Mountains. | ||
Southern Cascade Mountains. | ||
Sierra Nevada. | ||
Pacific Border | ||
Puget Trough. | ||
Olympic Mountains. | ||
Oregon Coast Range. | ||
Klamath Mountains. | ||
California Trough. | ||
California Coast Ranges. | ||
Los Angeles Ranges. | ||
Lower California. |
Source: Information courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.