What Is Another Name For The Appalachian Mountains?

What Is Another Name For The Appalachian Mountains? Appalachian Mountains, also called Appalachians, great highland system of North America, the eastern counterpart of the Rocky Mountains. Are there glaciers in Appalachians? In the Appalachian/Piedmont, the glaciers of the Laurentide ice sheet scoured and the meltwater flooded two major lake basins: Lake Champlain and the former