Usa Country Profile
Except for 2 almost round patches of rich limestone country—the Nashville Basin of Tennessee and the Kentucky Bluegrass region—most of both plateau region s consists of sandstone uplands, intricately dissected by streams. Local relief runs to several tons of of feet in most locations, and visitors to the area must journey winding roads along slender stream valleys. Andrew Jackson is supposed to have remarked that the United States begins on the Alleghenies, implying that only west of the mountains, in the isolation and freedom of the good Interior Lowlands, may people finally escape Old World influences. Whether or not the lowlands constitute the country’s cultural core is debatable, but there can be no doubt that they comprise its geologic core and in some ways its geographic core as properly. America is the birthplace of the fashionable enclosed "shopping center" as well as the open-air "shopping middle". Most large high-end malls are operated by nationwide mal...