Allegheny Mountain is a
stratigraphic ridge that extends northeast to southwest from south of
Blue Knob
Blue Knob (elevation ) is a summit in the eastern United States with a broad dome that is the northernmost 3,000-footer in the Allegheny Mountains. It is the highest point in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
The mountain is the site of Blue Knob S ...
to a
saddle point at the
Savage Mountain
Savage Mountain is an anticline extending from Bedford County, Pennsylvania southwest into Western Maryland. Except when available at another wikiarticle or cited otherwise, Google Maps is the source for coordinates in this article:
anticline. It merges with
Negro Mountain
Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States, stretching from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland north to the Casselman River in Pennsylvania. The summit, Mount Davis, is the highest point (3,213 feet) in Pe ...
just north of the
Cambria County
Cambria County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,472. Its county seat is Ebensburg. The county was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Somerset Cou ...
line where the
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
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Salisbury
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath.
Salisbury is in the southeast of ...
basin expires.
The
Eastern Continental Divide enters Allegheny Mountain south of
Fraziers Pass and follows the Allegheny Backbone
southwest where it leaves the
escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.
The terms ''scarp'' and ''scarp face'' are often used interchangeably with ''esca ...
toward the
saddle point to the southeast between headwaters of Flaugherty and
Wills Creeks, at which the ECD enters the
Savage Mountain
Savage Mountain is an anticline extending from Bedford County, Pennsylvania southwest into Western Maryland. Except when available at another wikiarticle or cited otherwise, Google Maps is the source for coordinates in this article:
anticline.
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References
{{Mountains of Pennsylvania
Allegheny Mountains
Ridges of Pennsylvania
Ridges of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Landforms of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Landforms of Cambria County, Pennsylvania