Broad Mountain (Lehigh Valley)

Broad Mountain[1]
The barrier wall of Broad Mountain (center) west of Lehigh Gorge and north of Tamaqua, Nesquehoning, and Jim Thorpe
Highest point
Peak	Broad Mountain, Carbon County, Pennsylvania[2]
Elevation	547.116 m (1,795.00 ft)GNIS
Prominence	540.1056 m (1,772.000 ft)1170284, Range,
Coordinates	40°54′34″N 75°48′24″W / 40.90944°N 75.80667°W / 40.90944; -75.80667
Dimensions
Length	14–15.0 mi (22.5–24.1 km) east-west
Geography
Broad Mountain had a large importance in local rail transportation.
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Borders on	Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, Nesquehoning Creek and Upper Lehigh River at lower Lehigh Gorge
Geology
Orogeny	Appalachian Mountains
Age of rock	Silurian??
Type of rock	Tuscarora Formation?? and Shawangunk Formation; sedimentary

Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing barrier ridge just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly, north of Nesquehoning and west and south of the Lehigh River basin west of the southwest border of the Poconos. The mountain ridge line is mostly flat and looks very similar to the man-made piles of culm in the region from the roads and towns looking up.