After millions of years, it was pushed up into the air to form land and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

There are seacoasts and deserts, flatlands and mountains.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

Wells Fargo's rugged but beautiful Concord stagecoaches, built in New Hampshire and employed all across the country, became symbolic of the dangerous journeys across the western plains and mountains.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the Piedmont, or plateau, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Lake Champlain lies in a valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Off in the distance you see a valley way below and lines of bluish gray mountains that seem to reach forever.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"We try to do something outside ' cause we live in Santa Fe and we live right in the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

And speaking of mountains, Alaska has more than seventy volcanoes that are potentially active, meaning that someday they could erupt.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In the summer, people go there to ride horses, climb mountains, catch fish and take trips on the rivers and lakes.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

It is in a beautiful area of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers come together.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Huge fields of gas shale are believed to lie under the Appalachian Mountains, Michigan and the south-central states.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

It's lonesome enough to live in the mountains when a man and a woman care for each other.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Later,the water and most of the acid left the caves as the Guadalupe Mountains continued to rise.

VOA: special.2009.12.07