Location of southern Appalachian region in relation to the United States
Relief and county map of the southern Appalachian region
Figure 1. (top) Location of southern Appalachian region (shaded area) in relation to the United States with (bottom) relief and county map of the southern Appalachian region [color legend denotes elevations (ft x 1,000 MSL; 1 ft = 0.3048 m); lines denote county boundaries; boldface lines denote state boundaries; line across the mountains denotes the cross-section axis used in Figure 3].
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