belted coastal plain

Japanese: belted coastal plain(英語表記)beltedcoastalplain
belted coastal plain

…The coastal plain on the east coast of the United States, from south of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, has undulating terrain up to 300 meters above sea level from the present coast to the mountain range behind it, and can reach a maximum width of 800 km. Rivers cross the plain as a whole, and the strata that slope gently toward the sea create a topography that runs parallel to the coastline, so it is called a "belted coastal plain." In this way, the depositional surface of the shallow seabed became land, and was then dissected, resulting in an undulating plain that includes plateaus and hills, and is called a coastal plain (or dissected coastal plain) in a broad sense. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "belted coastal plain" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカ合衆国東岸のニューヨーク以南からメキシコ湾岸にかけてのコースタル・プレーンは,現在の海岸から背後の山地までの間は標高300mくらいまでの起伏があり,最大幅800kmにも達する。そこでは河川は全体として平野を横切っており,海側に緩やかに傾く地層が海岸線に平行する地形をつくっているので,〈帯状に区分された海岸平野belted coastal plain〉といわれている。このように,浅海底の堆積面が陸化し,その後に開析され,台地,丘陵を含む起伏ある平野を,広い意味では海岸平野(あるいは開析された海岸平野)とよんでいる。…

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