Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

stations.

That is the Valley and Ridge Province.

Come on

here.

Yeah, look at this up here, the way it comes, and then almost like this is a meander.

Yeah, and then it starts heading back out the same way it came in.

Unless it flowed far enough south... to get caught up in the Valley and Ridge province.

See? So let me go back, orient it towards the north, and then zoom out.

So generally, if you're on the steeper side that has less water, it's much more isolated and it has more value.

Anybody from the Ridge and Valley thrust belt, we'll just call it the thrust belt from now on, but it is the long, skinny mountains that can stretch for hundreds of miles, really, going from northern Alabama up through Tennessee, but the majority of it is in Virginia and southern Pennsylvania.

As you can see, it's just zigzag.

Think of it as like the tectonic collision that created the Appalachian Mountains.

Now, if you add food here and it's also got cover, I mean, it's lights out.

There's really not much more to it once you find stuff like this.

So getting out of the Blue Ridge, this is the Ridge and Valley Thrust Belt.

So this is actually in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River.