Interior Low Plateaus

The entire province is divided northeast southwest by a fold axis known as the cincinnati arch.

Interior low plateaus. Except for two nearly circular patches of rich limestone country the nashville basin of tennessee and the kentucky bluegrass region most of both plateau regions consists of sandstone uplands intricately dissected by streams. The ozark plateaus form a section of the larger interior highlands region and the gulf coastal plain is part of the coastal plain. Interior low plateaus aquifers.

It consists of six distinct subregions. The interior low plateaus aquifers in segment 10 consist of the same two general categories of rocks as those in the central lowland province unconsolidated sand and gravel deposits of quaternary age that compose the surficial aquifer system and consolidated limestone dolomite and sandstone of paleozoic age figs. The interior low plateaus constitute a diverse landscape that extends from north alabama across central tennessee and kentucky into southern illinois indiana and ohio.

It consists of a diverse landscape that extends from north alabama across central tennessee and kentucky into southern illinois indiana and ohio. The interior low plateaus are a physiographic region in eastern united states. Hardwoods was really talking about all the various natural communities including barrens prairies of the interior low plateaus.

This section is in the interior low plateau geomorphic province. Its natural communities are a matrix of temperate forests woodlands and. John brian mccarthy cc by sa 2 0 major landforms in kentucky include the appalachian plateau the interior low plateaus and the coastal plain.

Landforms were formed by platform deposition of continental sediments into a shallow inland sea followed by uplifting to form a level bedded plateau which has been shaped by differential erosion to form a moderate to deeply dissected surface. The appalachian plateau is also known as the cumberland plateau and is located in the east of kentucky. This region deserves its own page to show the various communities both forested and non forested as modern ecologists understand it.

Its natural communities are a matrix of temperate forests woodlands and prairies. This article while titled central u s. The central lowland and the interior low plateaus are subdivisions of a broader region known as the interior plains.