Allegheny Mountain (Pennsylvania) Explained

Allegheny Mountain
Other Name:Allegheny Ridge[1]
Parent:Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the Allegheny Mountains
Country:United States
Subdivision1:Pennsylvania
Subdivision2 Type:Counties
Elevation Imperial:2782
Range Coordinates:40.0692°N -78.7644°W -->
Highest:Grandview Summit
Highest Location:Eastern Continental Divide
Coordinates:40.0581°N -78.7581°W
Elevation Ft:3010.3
Elevation Ref:[2]
Orogeny:Alleghenian orogeny
Geology:Carboniferous[3]
Map:Pennsylvania

Allegheny Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge that extends northeast to southwest from south of Blue Knob to a saddle point at the Savage Mountain anticline. It merges with Negro Mountain just north of the Cambria County line where the Berlin-Salisbury basin expires.[4]

The Eastern Continental Divide enters Allegheny Mountain south of Fraziers Pass and follows the Allegheny Backbone[5] southwest where it leaves the escarpment toward the saddle point to the southeast between headwaters of Flaugherty and Wills Creeks, at which the ECD enters the Savage Mountain anticline.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DeFebo . Michael . Improving the Roadway Turnpike Considers Tunnel Options . PATurnpike.com . 2009-11-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928054204/http://www.paturnpike.com/tools/newsletters/winter2000/page03.htm . 2011-09-28 . dead .
  2. Web site: GISDATA Map Studio . . 2009-12-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100218215105/http://gisdata.usgs.gov/index.php . 2010-02-18 . dead .

    a. Web site: USGS Elevation Web Service Query . 2009-12-03 . : 1) Y_Value=40.058056&X_Value=-78.758056 ... 3010.25951315412 :b. : 1) Berlin, Pennsylvania, 2) Cumberland, Maryland-Pennsylvania-West Virginia

  3. Book: Stevenson, J. J. The Geology of Bedford and Fulton Counties. 95. 2009-12-06. 1882. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: Report of Progress Volume 2 .
  4. Book: 469. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. 12. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. 1882.
  5. Book: Atkinson, Edward. Railroads of the United States: a Potent Factor in the Politics of That Country and of Great Britain. 1881. A. Williams and Company.