The Tidewater region covers the low lying Atlantic coastal plain of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina east of the fall line, including southeastern Virginia, eastern Maryland, the Eastern Shore, the Delmarva Peninsula, the Chesapeake Bay area, and parts of northeastern North Carolina. It takes its name from the effect of ocean tides on the region rivers, sounds, and shorelines, an influence that reaches well inland in many places. The region has a distinctive cultural history stretching back centuries, including local dialects of English that are gradually disappearing, along with notable ecological features such as receding shorelines and isolated island communities. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Tidewater is a region in the Atlantic Plains of the United States located east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line (the natural border where the tidewater meets with the Piedmont region) and north of the Deep South.
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The Tidewater region developed when sea levels rose after ice sheets melted at the end of the last ice age, resulting in the flooding of river valleys in the coastal plain and the Chesapeake lowland which created the Chesapeake Bay.
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Tidewater is a region in the Atlantic Plains of the United States located east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line
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