- Atlantic Plain
2. Continental Shelf (not on map)
3. Coastal Plain
- 3a. Embayed section
- 3b. Sea Island section
- 3c. Floridian section
- 3d. East Gulf Coastal Plain
- 3e. Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 3f. West Gulf Coastal Plain
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