Five physiographic provinces 

 are represented on this diagram, 

 a/i or fhem forming belts trending 

 in a northeast-Southwest direction. 



small portion of the Alleghen 



d. The belt of tlewer or folded Appalachians is narrower 

 here than at any other point, ffiftatmny Mountain is the mos t 

 prominent ridge, and is of the monocimal type., dipping westward. 

 The broad vai/ey to the eastward, known here as th& frittatinriy or 

 tVa/tkitt 14/ifey, is a p>art of the Great flppalachian l/a /ley. 



3. The belt of crystalline- rocks forming the t/ew Jersey Highlands 

 tnay be seen extending from the 4°rge or the fladson diaaonaiK- across 

 the state- and info Pennsylvania. Becaase if ends at Pcda/inc} and because 

 if is really an extension or the Meiv JTng i 

 Read ina Prong of the f/ew E~ngland "Upland. 



. n J *--,T", 6 nexrbe/f, the Tfia ss ic Lowland ' is developed upon a series of sandstones 

 intaulted or downwarped info the older crystallines, Ttie /nferbedded and rests tan A 

 trap sheets determine such pronounced features as the Palisades and UVatchang fTidges 



5. The rest of the area is embraced in the C oast al f=¥aiO- P rov i nce, whose cuesta may 

 be. seen extending from the Afavesink or Atlantic Highlands southward tvhere if forms, 

 the hilly belt of southern Aletv Jersey. 



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