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Community Prediction Map — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This community type map is intended to provide the reader with a visual representation of the landscape pattern of these communities. The map has not been field validated. The landform map was produced by Steve Simone (National Forests in NC, Asheville) a
Legend to Prediction Map — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This community type map is intended to provide the reader with a visual representation of the landscape pattern of these communities. The map has not been field validated. The landform map was produced by Steve Simon (National Forests in NC, Asheville) an
Big Bald — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a big bald in the southern Appalachians.
Heath bald — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a heath bald in the southern Appalachians.
Wind Meter — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Wind Meter
Big Yellow Mountain — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Big Yellow Mountain, TN/NC.
Round Bald — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a grassy bald from Round Bald, TN/NC.
Cove forest — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a typical southern Appalachian cove forest.
Trillium — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a trillium (T. erectum).
Cove canopy — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a canopy of a cove forest.
Farm landscape — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a farm landscape.
Appalachian valley — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photgraph of a typical Appalachian valley landscape view.
Violets — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a clump of violets in flower.
Red maple — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a red maple tree crown showing fall colors.
Outcrops — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of a rock outcropping surrounded by xeric oak-pine forest.
Potential Bioenergy — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Heaped slash suitable for bioenergy in a pine stand in Arizona.
Volusian County, Florida Wildfire in Pines — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Volusian County, Florida Wildfire in Pines
Hot springs — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photogaph of the Hot Springs, NC landscape.
Umbrella leaf — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of umbrella leaf in flower.
Elevation Map — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Map showing high elevation regions in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
Fraser firs — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of fraser firs showing dead crowns.
Mt. Mitchell — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photograph of the Mt. Mitchell area showing the condition of the spruce-fir forests.
Cherokee Mountains — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Henry Timberlake Memoirs published in late 1700's, A Draught of the Cherokee Country.
River cane along Cumberland River. Whitely County, Kentucky — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Rivercane, once a common plant along river bottoms in the region has historically had many uses.
Mossy Creek Farmstead, 1842, Jefferson County Tennesse — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This image is representative of a developed farmstead.
Salting Sheep, 1900 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: The Southern Appalachians were prime area for sheep raising; some families owned as many as 30 sheep.
Volusia County Wildfire in Pines 2 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Volusia County Wildfire in Pines 2
Findley Gold Mine, West Cut, Lumpkin Country, Georgia — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This image is an example of enviornmental damage caused by Placer gold mining.
Placer Gold mining, White Country, Georgia. — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: By the 1840's, after a decade of mining that produced $20 million in gold, the Lumpkin mines began to close. Miners known in Georgia as the "twenty-niners" became the "forty-niners" of the California gold rush
American ginseng — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Ginseng is a native plant that was dug by both Cherokees and pioneers alike. It was dug and sold on the world market.
Forest deadenings, 1900 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Forest Deadenings, Message from the President, Senate No. 84, Plate VIII
Evolution of the Sequatchie Valley — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: A. Undisturbed sediments before beginning of late Paleozoic orogeny. B. Anticlinal ridge resulting from folding and thrust-faulting during the Allegheny orogeny. C. Ancestral Sequatchie River begins headward erosion on crest of anticline in Mesozoic Era.
Schematic diagram showing development of colluvium on benched slopes in Appalachian Plateau — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Colluvium is generated by weathering near head of slope, then accumulates on benches and in swales and gullies. Dots show more resistant sandstones, dashes show less resistant shales. Symbol S denotes horizon of abundant seeps; Qc is Quaternary colluvium;
Earth Flow Terrain — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photography of earth-flow terrain, Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania
Elevation Map of Appalachian Plateau Province — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Elevation map portraying Cumberland Plateau and adjacent provinces in eastern Tennessee. Note the Sequatchie Valley and the contrast of the highly dissected northwestern margin of the Plateau with the much straighter southeastern (i.e., southeast of Wald
Slump Earth Flow — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: A. Block diagram of slump-earthflow. B. Idealized earth flow
Blue Ridge Escarpment — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This is a three dimensional drawing of the Blue Ridge Front range.
Volusia County, Florida Wildfire in Pines 3 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Volusia County, Florida Wildfire in Pines 3
debris-flow fan — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photo of debris-flow fan in Nelson County, Virginia
Debris Flow Fans — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Map showing small-to-medium sized fans and their tributary drainage basins in the Dellwood quadrangle, Great Smoky Mountains
Subdivison of the Southern Blue Ridge — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Map outlining different areas of the southern blueridge.
Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: This figures shows the subdivision of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces as defined by Hack, 1982.
Debris Flow Chute — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Photo of debris-flow chute in Virginia Blue Ridge
Trenches and Basins of Blue Ridge — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Trenches and basins of Southern Appalachians
Mean Annual Temperature — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Mean annual temperatures of the Southern Appalachians and surrounding region.
Mean Annual Precipitation — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Mean annual precipitation of the Southern Appalachians and surrounding region.
Plate Tectonics — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Relationship between plate movements and the Paleozoic mountain-building episodes of the Appalachians. Straight horizontal lines indicate sea level. Oceanic crust formed during sea-floor spreading shown in black, continental crust in white. Arrows show
Major Drainage Basins of Southern Appalachians — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: A total of 266 watersheds are shown in this figure. The largest watershed is Lower Kentucky, with a drainage area of 8,392 km2. The average size of the basins shown is 3,581 km2.
Volusia County, Florida Wildfire with Firefighter Profile — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Volusia County, Florida Wildfire with Firefighter Profile
Major streams of the Appalachian Highlands — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Pattered areas are the Appalachian Highlands. Rivers are identified by numbers: 1, Delaware; 2, Schuylkill; 3, Susquehanna; 4, Patapsco; 5, Potomac; 6, Rappahannock; 7, James; 8, Appomattox; 9, Meherrin; 10, Roanoke; 10a, Dan; 11, Neuse; 12, Cape Fear; 12
Bedrock geology map of Southern Appalachians — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM
Drainage patterns in the georgia piedmont — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: The stream that runs diagonally from northeast to southwest, completely across the map, is the Chattahoochee River, which follows the Brevard zone. Drainage patterns on the northwest side of the zone differ from those on the southeast side.
Sedimentary accumulation rates — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Rates are in thousands of cubic kilometers per million years. Column heights of geologic periods are drawn proportional to respective time spans.
Maximum ice cover of North America during Pleistocene. — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Chart of the maximum ice cover of North America during Pleistocene.
Atlantic Ocean — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: The Atlantic Ocean formed as the North American and African continents moved apart (position of present-day United States outlined in white).
Glaciation — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Diagram showing the extent of Pleistocene glaciation in North America.
Alum Creek — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Creek by Alum Cave Bluffs Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Wax Lake — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Wax Lake and Lower Atchafalaya deltas, Mississippi River delta area, Lousiana.
An Inland Sea — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Paleomap showing the extent of inland seas (light blue) about 480 million years ago. The present-day position of the United States is outlined in white, and the equator is shown as a dashed yellow line.
CCC Enrollees Responding to a Fire in South Carolina in 1938 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: CCC Enrollees Responding to a Fire in South Carolina in 1938
Black Smoker — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: A "black smoker" on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (25 deg. N., 45 deg. W.) from which hot metal-bearing fluids are discharged from a sea-floor vent.
Copper Basin Devastation — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: View of U.S. 64 through the Copper Basin before revegetation.
Copper Basin Restoration — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: View of the Copper Basin in 1997 with U.S. 64 in the distance. Photograph taken from an unrestored historic site near Ducktown Basin Museum, Ducktown, TN.
Ocoee Basin — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: The formation of the Ocoee basin by faulting and subsidence caused by expansion of the continental crust. Sediments from the surrounding areas filled the basin as it continued to subside.
Igneous Plutons — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Emplacement of an igneous pluton (top three diagrams, progressively closer views), followed by erosion to produce a dome-shaped feature.
Looking Glass Rock — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Looking Glass Rock, Pisgah National Forest, as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville, N.C., Milepost 413.1 (Pounding Mill Overlook).
Rockfall — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Rockfall near Gatlinburg, TN
Geologic Window — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Stages in the development of a geologic window.
Gold Miners — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Gold miners in Georgia. From Harpers Magazine, 1879.
Trail of Tears — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Cherokees on the route to the west. From the painting, "Trail of Tears," by Robert Lindneux.
CCC Enrollees Constructing a Fireline in Virginia in 1939 — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: CCC Enrollees Constructing a Fireline in Virginia in 1939
Sandstone Ridges — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Sandstone ridges of Lookout Mountain above Moccasin Bend, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Chattanaooga, TN.
Sandstone Outcrops — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Metamorphosed sandstone in the Clingman's Dome parking area, Great Smokey Mountains National Park.
Continental Plates — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Stages of movement of continental plates beginning about 470 million years ago and culminating in the collision of the eastern ancestral North American continent with ancestral Africa about 270 million years ago.
Old Rocks — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: The location of rocks over 1.1 billion years old (red) in southeastern Canada and eastern United States. These rocks are remnants of an ancient supercontinent.
Eargle's colluvial diagram for S.C. Piedmont — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Sections across a Piedmont Surface in South Carolina showing colluvial soil and pleistocene organic deposits in old drainageways and their relations to the present surface.
Subdivision of Piedmont and Blue Ridge — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM: Hack's subdivision of Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces
Boulder Colluvium — by Cole Sherer — last modified 2008-01-17 10:57 AM