• Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between 350–450...
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    Puget lowland forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion on the Pacific coast of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization...
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    filling the main trough of Puget Sound and inundating the southern lowlands. Glacial Lake Russell was the first such large recessional lake. From the vicinity...
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    The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic...
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  • "Canadian rocks [are] strewn all over the Puget lowland, stretching from the Olympic Peninsula clear over to the Cascade Range." Erratics can be found...
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    definitions place the Puget Lowland physiographic province east of the Willapa Hills. Included within the province are the Black Hills, the Doty Hills, and a number...
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  • River Valleys and Hills 74 Mississippi Valley Loess Plains 82 Laurentian Plains and Hills 83 Eastern Great Lakes and Hudson Lowlands 84 Atlantic Coastal...
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    Georgia Depression (category Geography of the Pacific Northwest)
    Cascades to the east. The depression includes the Fraser Lowland, Nanaimo and Nahwitti lowlands of Vancouver Island, Puget Sound basin, and all the islands...
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    The Seattle Fault is a zone of multiple shallow east–west thrust faults that cross the Puget Sound Lowland and through Seattle (in the U.S. state of Washington)...
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    "Canadian rocks [are] strewn all over the Puget lowland, stretching from the Olympic Peninsula clear over to the Cascade Range." Erratics can be found...
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    Vancouver for his aide, Peter Puget, in 1792. The ninth Puget Sound Update, from the Puget Sound Action Team reports that: "the Puget Sound has biological resources...
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    Station in Canada, Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute in Germany. The Puget Sound basin is a large lowland surrounding bodies of salt water called in government...
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    Vashon Glaciation (category Glaciology of the United States)
    John (2008). "The Glacial Origins of the Puget Basin" (PDF). North Seattle Community College. Retrieved November 18, 2016. "Puget Lowland". Washington...
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    is the headquarters of several major companies, including Microsoft and Amazon. The area's geography is varied and includes the lowlands around Puget Sound...
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    Harvey; Manning, Penny (1995). Walks and Hikes in the Foothills and Lowlands: Around Puget Sound. Seattle: The Mountaineers. ISBN 0-89886-431-3. Alt, David...
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    Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (ecoregion) (category Ecoregions of the United States)
    gently rolling hills, and dissected hills, ridges, and bluffs near the Mississippi River. The presence of thick deposits of loess is one of the distinguishing...
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  • informally named hills. Reaching an elevation of 1761 feet (537 meters), a thousand feet above the glacial till that fills the Puget Lowland, they form a...
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    Boston Mountains (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Geological Survey)
    north, and bordered on the south by the Arkansas Valley. The Oklahoma portion of the range is locally referred to as the Cookson Hills. There are several...
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  • The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic regions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic...
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    meteorological effects in Puget Sound region, including the Puget Sound Convergence Zone, marine push, diurnal wind circulation (sea breeze), and the relatively high...
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    Divisions of the United States, published in 1916. The map was updated and republished by the Association of American Geographers in 1928. The map was adopted...
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    Columbia Plateau (ecoregion) (category Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands in the United States)
    The region covers 109 square miles (282 km2) in Oregon and much larger areas in Washington, extending from the Horse Heaven Hills in the south to the...
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  • Portland Basin (geology) (category Structural basins of the United States)
    The Portland Basin is a roughly 770-square-mile (2,000 km2) topographic and structural depression in the central Puget-Willamette Lowland. The Portland...
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    Cascades (ecoregion) (category Plant communities of the West Coast of the United States)
    Mountains ecoregion, on the east by the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills, and on the west by the Willamette Valley and Puget Lowland ecoregions. It been...
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    Ouachita Mountains (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Geological Survey)
    herds of bison inhabited the lowland areas of the Ouachitas. Historian Muriel H. Wright wrote that "Ouachita" is composed of the Choctaw words owa for "hunt"...
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    Snohomish County, Washington (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2010)
    1855, marking the cession of Coast Salish territories in the Puget Sound lowlands. The Tulalip Indian Reservation was established to house the remaining tribes...
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    cool temperatures. While the Puget Sound lowlands are known for clouds and rain in the winter, the western slopes of the Cascades receive larger amounts...
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  • form rolling hills up to about 310 metres above sea level. The Fraser River dominates this lowland. Gleysols, Mesisols, and Humisols are the dominant wetland...
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    Quercus garryana (category Plants described in 1840)
    grows on the west side of the Cascade Range, particularly in the Puget Sound lowlands, the northeastern Olympic Peninsula, Whidbey Island, the Chehalis...
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    The following is a list of ecoregions in the United States as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The United States is a megadiverse country...
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