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((Short description|Geographic region in Tennessee, United States of America))
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The '''Highland Rim''' is a geographic term for the area in [[Tennessee]], [[North Alabama]], and [[Kentucky]] which surrounds the [[Nashville Basin|Central Basin]]. Geologically, the Central Basin is a [[dome (geology)|dome]]. The Highland Rim is a [[cuesta]] surrounding the basin, and the border where the difference in elevation is sharply pronounced is an [[escarpment]]. 

==Geology and Physiography==
The Highland Rim is a [[Physiographic regions of the world|physiographic section]] of the larger [[Interior Low Plateaus]] province, which in turn is part of the larger [[Interior Plains]] physiographic division.<ref name="USGS-Water">((cite web |title=Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U. S. |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey |url=http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/physio.xml |access-date=2007-12-06 ))</ref> Most of the Highland Rim is located in U.S. [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] [[Ecoregion]] 71, Interior Plateau, which is a part of the [[List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA)#Eastern Temperate Forest|Eastern Temperate Forest]].

The sections of the Highland Rim are referred to the four cardinal directions, e.g., "Northern Highland Rim", etc. The Highland Rim is rather continuous and any division of it, including the ones made below, are somewhat arbitrary. The term "highland" here is relative: it is certainly higher than the basin it surrounds, but it nonetheless is seldom at an elevation above ((convert|1100|ft|m)) above sea level and never more than about ((convert|1400|ft|m)) above sea level except where interrupted, primarily to the southeast, by outliers of the [[Cumberland Plateau]].  With the exception of a few broad stream bottoms, the land is characterized by ridges and valleys with a few fairly low hills.  The entire region is well watered with many perennial streams.  There are occasional waterfalls which sometimes delineate the Highland Rim from the Central Basin which it surrounds.

===Western Highland Rim===
The Western Highland Rim is encountered a few miles west of Nashville and extends to the western valley of the [[Tennessee River]]. The area is a hilly area that is bisected by the [[Tennessee River]] and the [[Cumberland River]] valleys. Underlying bedrock of the region is chiefly [[Mississippian age|Mississippian]] [[limestone]], [[chert]], [[shale]], and [[sandstone]] with exposures of [[Devonian]], [[Silurian]], [[Ordovician]], and [[Cambrian]] limestone, chert, and shale.<ref name="Arch">((cite web |title=Physiography of Tennessee |publisher=Tennessee Archaeology Net |url=http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/physio.html |access-date=2007-12-30 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071106142349/http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/physio.html|archive-date = 2007-11-06))</ref> In the northern part of the Western Highland Rim, [[sinkhole]]s readily occur in an area with a southern extension of the Pennyroyal plateau of Kentucky, where the [[karst]] is best developed on the [[Mississippian age|Mississippian]] [[St. Louis Limestone]] and the [[Ste. Genevieve Limestone]].<ref name="Karst">((cite web|last=Shofner |first=Gregory A. |author2=Hugh H. Mills |author3=Jason E. Duke |title=A Simple Map Index of Karstification and its Relationship to Sinkhole and Cave Distribution in Tennessee |publisher=Journal of Cave and Karst Studies |year=2001 |url=http://www.caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/V63/v63n2-Shofner.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2007-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925185149/http://caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/V63/v63n2-Shofner.pdf |archive-date=September 25, 2006 ))</ref> 

===Eastern Highland Rim===
The Eastern Rim rises approximately fifty miles east of Nashville and is bordered to its east by even higher terrain, the [[Cumberland Plateau]]. Erosion has exposed carbonate bedrock of Late [[Paleozoic]] age. These carbonate rocks contain variable amounts of chert and are often interbedded with fine grained clastic rocks. As a result, these rocks are more resistant to erosion than the underlying purer limestones of the Lower (Early) Paleozoic. The geology is diverse and is
typically limestone at valley floors (around ((convert|500|ft|m)) elevation) and sandstone on ridges (to around 1,000 feet).<ref>((cite web|title=Alabama Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy |publisher=Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |url=http://www.outdooralabama.com/research-mgmt/cwcs/Chapter2.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2007-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409163009/http://www.outdooralabama.com/research-mgmt/cwcs/Chapter2.pdf |archive-date=2008-04-09 ))</ref> The constituent bedrock is composed primarily of [[Mississippian age|Mississippian]] aged [[St. Louis Limestone|St. Louis]], and [[Warsaw Limestone|Warsaw]] [[limestone]]s with [[Fort Payne Formation|Fort Payne chert]] underlain by [[Chattanooga Shale]] that forms a large part of the escarpment.<ref name="Arch" /> This area is mostly undulating plains, hills, and [[karst]].

===Northern Highland Rim===
The Northern Highland Rim is encountered a few miles north of Nashville and extends to the [[Kentucky]] border, and the region of Kentucky adjacent to it called the [[Pennyroyal Plateau|Pennyroyal]] is largely a continuation of it under another name.

===Southern Highland Rim===
For the most part the Southern Rim is the farthest from Nashville, rising at some points just a few miles north of the border with [[Alabama]].  The landforms are continuous with those in adjacent portions of Alabama, although perhaps the most spectacular landforms of any portion of the Rim are to be found there.

The stratigraphy of the Southern Highland Rim is primarily composed of flat-lying limestones, [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]]s, and shales, and to a much lesser extent, of cherts, [[siltstone]]s, [[mudstone]]s, and very fine grained to [[Conglomerate (geology)|conglomeratic]] sandstones.

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