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Caseyville Hills
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Cumberland Plateau
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Appalachian Mountains
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KY
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IN
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The dissected Caseyville Hills ecoregion is dominated by forests and pastureland and is mantled by thin loess. Valleys are narrower and are much less extensive than in Ecoregion 72c but are wider, deeper, and more numerous than in Ecoregion 71a. Ecoregion 72h is underlain by Pennsylvanian sandstones, siltstones, shales, and coal of the Tradewater and Caseyville formations and Mississippian Chesterian limestones, sandstones, siltstones, and shales. These formations are absent from the lower, less rugged, and less wooded Ecoregions 72a and 72c. Limestone is much less common than in the Interior Plateau (71). Potential natural vegetation is oak – hickory forest and forests remain common. Today, livestock and hay farming, logging, oil production, and coal mining are the dominant land uses. However, coal mining is less extensive than in Ecoregion 72c. Upland perennial streams are cooler and have higher gradients, rockier substrates, better water quality, more diverse habitats, and more productive fish and macroinvertebrate communities than Ecoregion 72c.
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