1. Virginia’s Five Regions or more correctly, Virginia’s Five Physiographic Provinces (& other maps)

2. Coastal Plain “Tidewater” Piedmont Valley & Ridge Blue Ridge Appalachian Plateau MID-ATLANTIC PHYSIOGRAPHIC SETTING

3. Appalachian PlateauValley & RidgeBlue RidgePiedmontCoastal Plain OuterInnerOuterInner Great Valley Triassic basin Province boundary Province subdivision Triassic basin Danville T.B. Farmville T.B. Richmond T.B. Culpeper T.B. VIRGINIA PHYSIOGRAPHY

4. Coastal Plain “Tidewater “Tidewater” Piedmont Valley & Ridge Blue Ridge Appalachian Plateau MID-ATLANTIC GEOLOGIC SETTING

5. Coastal Plain Outer Inner Piedmont Triassic Basins Appalachian Plateau Blue Ridge Valley & Ridge VIRGINIA GEOLOGY

6. PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN “Tidewater” BLUE RIDGE VALLEY AND RIDGE APPALACHIAN PLATEAU VIRGINIA ELEVATIONS

7. PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN “Tidewater” BLUE RIDGE VALLEY AND RIDGE APPALACHIAN PLATEAU VIRGINIA PHYSIOGRAPHY

8. PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN “Tidewater” BLUE RIDGE VALLEY AND RIDGE APPALACHIAN PLATEAU VIRGINIA’S FIVE REGIONS/PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES

9. PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN “Tidewater” BLUE RIDGE VALLEY AND RIDGE APPALACHIAN PLATEAU VIRGINIA’S FIVE REGIONS/PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES

10. THE TRICK TO USING VIRGINIA LOCALITIES TO FIND REGION BOUNDARIES Fall Line cities (connect the dots!) County boundaries drawn along ridgelines Blue Ridge Allegheny Front

11. SOUTHSIDE RICHMOND METRO/ TRI-CITIES HAMPTON ROADS NORTHERN NECK EASTERN SHORE MIDDLE PENINSULA DC METRO/ NORTHERN VIRGINIA CENTRAL VIRGINIA/ CENTRAL PIEDMONT SHENANDOAH VALLEY COAL COUNTRY SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MANUFAC- TURING TRIANGLE MOUNTAIN WEST VIRGINIA’S VERNACULAR REGIONS

12. VIRGINIA DRAINAGE BASINS Ohio R. Albemarle Sound Tennessee R. Roanoke Gap James River Gap Potomac River Gap

13. Mattaponi R. Pamunkey R. YorkR. VIRGINIA WATERWAYS

14. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain South- eastern Plains Northern Piedmont Piedmont Blue Ridge Ridge and Valley Central Appalachians VIRGINIA ECOREGIONS

15. VIRGINIA PHYSIOGRAPHY

16. VIRGINIA ELEVATIONS

17. VIRGINIA PHYSIOGRAPHY

19. VIRGINIA LOCALITIES