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Stress from the Alleghanian orogeny reactivated faulting, produced uplifts, and deformation/folding as far west as the Pennsylvanian-aged Ancestral Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The eroded remains of the collisional mountains formed on Pangea are still in existence today as the Appalachian, Alleghanian, Scandinavian, Marathon, and Ouachita Mountain ranges.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

We were running our lightning express on the `Great Alleghanian.'

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Hale, Edward Everett

The Cherokees and Creeks are said to be the remnants or descendants of the Alleghanian Race, the supposed builders of those great monuments of which we still find traces in the Mississippi Valley.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

New England marks a meeting place of the Canadian and Alleghanian floras.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low