Allegheny Front

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The Allegheny Front is an escarpment delineating the eastern edge of the Allegheny Mountains. The Front extends southwesterly from South-Central Pennsylvania, through Western Maryland, and into eastern West Virginia and is bordered on the East by the westernmost valley of the Ridge and Valley Province of the Appalachians; to the West of the Front lie the Allegheny Mountains.

The front has an elevational change of up to three thousand feet.

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