![]() ![]() The plain slopes gently seaward from the inland highlands in a series of terraces. The Coastal Plain Province, the flattest province, stretches over 2,200 miles from Cape Cod to the Mexican border. ![]() The province is part of the Interior Plains division of the United States and is characterized by flat lands at less than 2,000 feet above sea level the geomorphic remnant of continental glaciation. This province is the largest, covering about 585,000 miles and extending from western New York to North Dakota, and south to Texas. ![]() ![]() The Cascades form an arc-shaped band extending from British Columbia to Northern California with 13 major volcanic centers that lie in sequence. The Sierra Nevada mountains can be thought of as an enormous tilted fault block with a long slope westward to California's Central Valley and steep eastern slope. These two mountain ranges formed by different geological forces and processes.
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