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Roan Mountain Highlands: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the natural beauty and geological and ecological diversity of the Roan Mountain Highlands that straddle the border between North Carolina and Tennesee.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Wet rice in the highlands: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3; This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Plutonic gabbro: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 8; Figure 6 shows the other major rock type at the crest of Roan Mountain. The dark rock in the foreground is the Bakersville gabbro described in the Introduction. It formed as a molten intrusion into the gneiss about 750 million years ago, and was carried upward...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Highlands Biological Station and Nature Center: A year-round biological field station located on a high plateau in the southern Appalachian Mountains of southwestern North Carolina providing learning opportunities for teachers and students.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The unique beauty of the Roan Highlands: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 1; The natural beauty of the Roan Mountain Highlands has been recognized since they were first visited by Europeans in the eighteenth century. The first naturalist to report on this site was John Fraser (for whom the Fraser fir is named) in 1787. Other reports...; By Dirk Frankenberg and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.

Grassy bald community: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 5; Figure 3 shows another close-up view of the grassy bald community. The nearby Roan High Knob with its spruce/fir forest is in the background. Taken together, Figures 1–3 are designed to give you a sense of how the major plant communities of the Roan...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Northern hardwood community: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 15; Figure 13 shows a view of the northern hardwoods forest type that dominates the flanks of the Roan Highlands. As its name suggests, this is a forest type of mixed composition. The major tree species are the three Bs — beech, birch, and buckeye —...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Scottish Highlands: Glen Coe, in the Scottish Highlands.; Format: image/photograph

A creek at the base of Roan Highlands: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 19; Figure 17 shows some of the downstream damage wrought by the January 1998 flood. I regret it is not easy to make out, but the creek is, at this low flow stage, the narrow water body flowing from upper left to lower right at the base of the steep bank from...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Creek at Base of Roan Highlands: Format: image/photograph

Gneiss from Roan Highlands: Format: image/photograph

Bridal Veil Falls near Highlands, NC: This is Bridal Veil Falls near Highlands, North Carolina. The falls consist of 120 feet of cascading water, one section of which crests over a turn-out on the road. Formerly, one could drive a car under the falls, but rock collapses have now blocked the turn-out.; Format: image/photograph

Channeling air from the south: In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 7; A comparable ridge on the east is shown in Figure 4. The two sides of the bowl contain the northward flowing air and force it to rise up over the highlands represented by Whiteside Mountain and other peaks along the Blue Ridge.; By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.

A grassy bald: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 4; Figure 2 shows the grassy bald on Round Bald with ancient gneiss exposed in the foreground, and other grassy balds on high ridge crests in the background. The gneiss here looks pretty dull because its separation of minerals is masked by weathering and lichen...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob: Visit the Learning Center at Lake Junaluska and participate in a scientific research program that focuses on the scientific method, air quality, or soil health.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

A creek at middle elevations: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 18; Figure 16 shows the same creek as that in Figure 15, but at an elevation about 1000 feet closer to sea level. Note the almost uniform roundness of the boulder edges when compared to those in Figure 15. The boulders here are also smaller than those in Figure...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Gneiss and gabbro: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 9; Figure 7 shows a close-up of the contact between the gneiss and the intruded gabbro. The gneiss is at the top. It is light colored and its surface is pocked by erosion. The gabbro is on the bottom, is darker and has a much smoother surface. The knife (shown...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

A high-elevation creek: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 17; Figure 15 shows another view of the high-elevation northern hardwoods community with the headwaters of a typical mountain drainage creek. Note the relatively large size and square shape of the stones in the creek. This is what we would expect in small headwater...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

A boulder of Roan Mountain gneiss: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 7; Figure 5 shows a boulder of Roan Mountain gneiss quarried out of the mountainside and doing duty now as a persuasive "No Entry" signal to those thinking of using an off-limits Forest Service road. The bands of quartz show up nicely in this recently exposed...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

Interior of spruce-fir forest: In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 13; Figure 11 shows an interior view of the spruce-fir forest on Roan High Knob. Note that trees of all sizes occur here, that they are crowded together so densely that some even grow on top of boulders as is the case in the foreground. Note also that dead trees...; By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.

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