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Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between 350–450 feet (110–140 m) and rarely more than 500 feet (150 m) above sea level. Hills are often notable geologically and for social reasons, such as the seven hills of Seattle.

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Hills in the Puget Lowland

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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

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Puget lowland forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion the Pacific coast of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization...

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Puget Sound

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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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Puget Sound faults

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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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Glacial erratic boulders of the Puget Sound region

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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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Willapa Hills

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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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Georgia Depression

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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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Puget Sound AVA

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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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Seattle Fault

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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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Vashon Glaciation

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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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Chehalis Gap

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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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Environmental issues in Puget Sound

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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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Issaquah Alps

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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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Seattle metropolitan area

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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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List of physiographic regions

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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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Boston Mountains

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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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Ouachita Mountains

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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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Physiographic regions of the United States

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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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List of regions of the United States

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Lakes Loess Hills Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area Quad Cities Siouxland Regions of Kansas include: East-Central Kansas Flint Hills High Plains...

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Lower Mainland Ecoregion

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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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