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His capital is at a place called Telemico, just below the Fall Line.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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His capital is at a place called Telemico, just below the Fall Line.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The boundary with the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain (63) occurs at the Fall Line.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Fall Line forms the border between the Piedmont and the lower, more poorly-drained Southeastern Plains (65); to the east of the Fall Line, Ecoregion 65 is composed of sedimentary rocks that are lithologically distinct from those of Ecoregion 45.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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This border is near the Fall Line, which divides the Lower Paleozoic schist and gneiss of Ecoregion 64c from the much younger, less resistant, and flat-lying sedimentary rocks.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The boundary between the Southeastern Plains (65) and ecoregions 45 and 64 occurs at the Fall Line where the metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont and the sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain interfinger.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Northern Piedmont (64) is divided from the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain (63) by the Fall Line.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Its western border with the Piedmont Uplands (64c) is at the Fall Line.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The boundary between the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain (63) and the Northern Piedmont (64) occurs at the Fall Line.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The northern part of the Delaware River Terraces and Uplands (63a) is dominated by Philadelphia, Wilmington, and their suburbs; these cities developed on the Fall Line next to the Delaware River estuary.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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