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ID: 7544499
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http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7544499
Record Type:
physical
Appalachia (former physical feature)
Note:
Name given to the former continent corresponding to the eastern part of current North America, dating to the Mesozoic when the Western Interior Seaway split the continent of North America in two.
Names:
Appalachia (Mesozoic continent)
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Laurasia
(former physical feature) (
P
)
........
Appalachia
(former physical feature) (
P
)
Place Types:
former physical feature (
preferred
,
C
)
island (
H
)
continent (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Appalachia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Sampson, Lost Continent, Scientific American (2012)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Sampson, Lost Continent, Scientific American (2012)
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