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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.
Piedmont is an unincorporated community that is located in Southwestern Lamar County, Georgia, United States, Located at 33.017 -84.251. U.S Route 19 Passes about 4 miles west from town, available via Allen, Piedmont, and Vega roads. State Route 36 passes about 4 miles south southwest of Piedmont available via The Rock road, Which leads to The ...
The U.S. state of Georgia is commonly divided into four geologic regions that influence the location of the state's four traditional physiographic regions. [1] [2] The four geologic regions include the Appalachian foreland, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal
The Piedmont region in the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont) [1] is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.It is situated between the Atlantic Plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south.
According to Georgia Tech, the Piedmont Atlantic represents over 12 percent of the total United States population and covers over 243,000 square miles (630,000 km 2) of land. The Piedmont Atlantic megaregion is just one emergent megalopolis (also known as a megaregion) of eleven such regions in the continental United States.
The highest altitudes in all three of these west Georgia counties can be found along the range. [1] The Pine Mountain Range is part of a larger geological feature known as the Pine Mountain terrane, [2] which extends into eastern Alabama. The ridge in Georgia exceeds 1,100 feet (340 m) in elevation for a distance of about 20 miles (32 km).
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The first statewide geologic map of Georgia was published in 1825. It was a 1:1,000,000 scale map of Georgia and Alabama published by Henry Schenck Tanner. [3] In 1849 W.T. Williams published the geological features for the state on a 1:120,000 scale map within George White's (1849) Statistics of the State of Georgia report. [4]