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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States in North America.The Golden Isles of Georgia lie off the coast of the state. The main geographical features include mountains such as the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the northwest, the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast, the Piedmont plateau in the central portion of the state and Coastal Plain in the south.
The Appalachian foreland of Georgia is an excellent example of a foreland fold and thrust belt that develops during continental collisions. Rocks of the Appalachian Plateau, in the extreme northwest corner of the Appalachian foreland, are the relatively undeformed equivalents of folded and faulted strata in the folded Valley and Ridge ...
Map showing Earth's principal tectonic plates and their boundaries in detail. These plates comprise the bulk of the continents and the Pacific Ocean.For purposes of this list, a major plate is any plate with an area greater than 20 million km 2 (7.7 million sq mi)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and eighth most populous.
Continental shelf – Coastal and oceanic landform; Cryoplanation terrace – Formation of plains, terraces and pediments in periglacial environments; Dissected plateau – Plateaus area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp; Etchplain – Plain where the bedrock has been subject to considerable subsurface weathering
Kerguelen Plateau – Oceanic plateau in the southern Indian Ocean; Laramidia – Island continent that existed until the end of the Late Cretaceous period; Laurentia – Craton forming the geological core of North America; Mauritia (microcontinent) – A Precambrian microcontinent that broke away as India and Madagascar separated
Georgia is largely surrounded by the Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus mountains, which form part of a natural boundary between Eastern Europe and West Asia. Because the Europe–Asia boundary is essentially a "historical and cultural construct", [8] Georgia's continental placement has varied greatly.
In the 21st century, Georgia is regarded as a European country [90] for historical, cultural, religious, and political reasons. [91] [92] [93] The international geographic community has never reached a universal agreement on continental borders, especially with regard to the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian seas.