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Ouachita Mountains

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The Ouachita Mountains, simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. [1]

100 relations: Alabama, Anticline, Appalachian Mountains, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas River Valley, Atoka County, Oklahoma, Atoka Formation, Battle of Devil's Backbone, Benton, Arkansas, Bigfork Chert, Black Fork Mountain Wilderness, Black Warrior Basin, Blakely Sandstone, Blaylock Sandstone, Blue Ridge Parkway, Boggy Formation, Broken Bow, Oklahoma, Caddo River, Cambrian, Caney Creek Wilderness, Chert, Clark County, Arkansas, Clearcutting, Collier Shale, Cossatot River, Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area, Crystal Mountain Sandstone, Flatside Wilderness, Foreland basin, Garland County, Arkansas, Hartshorne Formation, Hernando de Soto, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park, Howard County, Arkansas, Jackfork Sandstone, Johns Valley Formation, Juniperus virginiana, Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine, Lake Hamilton, Arkansas, Lake Maumelle, Lake Ouachita, Little Missouri River (Arkansas), Little Rock, Arkansas, Louisiana Purchase, Mazarn Shale, McAlester Formation, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, Mena, Arkansas, ..., Metamorphism, Mississippi, Mississippian (geology), Missouri Mountain Shale, Montgomery County, Arkansas, Mount Ida, Arkansas, Mount Magazine, Mount Magazine State Park, Mountain range, North America, North American Plate, Novaculite, Oklahoma, Ouachita National Forest, Ouachita National Recreation Trail, Ouachita orogeny, Ouachita people, Ozarks, Paleozoic, Pennsylvanian (geology), Pike County, Arkansas, Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Pinus echinata, Polk County, Arkansas, Polk Creek Shale, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Quartz, Queen Wilhelmina State Park, Quercus acerifolia, Quercus stellata, Rich Mountain (Arkansas–Oklahoma), Rocky Mountains, Savanna Sandstone, Sedimentary rock, Sevier County, Arkansas, Sharpening stone, South American Plate, Southern United States, Stanley Shale, Syncline, Talimena Scenic Drive, Texas, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Interior Highlands, United States, United States Forest Service, Volcanism, William Dunbar (explorer), Womble Shale. Expand index (50 more) »

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Anticline

In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.

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Arkadelphia, Arkansas

Arkadelphia is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Arkansas River Valley

The Arkansas River Valley (usually shortened to River Valley) is a region in Arkansas defined by the Arkansas River in the western part of the state.

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Atoka County, Oklahoma

Atoka County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Atoka Formation

Named after Atoka County, Oklahoma, the Atoka Formation is a geologic formation in central and western Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, central and western Texas, and eastern New Mexico.

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Battle of Devil's Backbone

The Battle of Devil's Backbone (also known as Backbone Mountain) was a battle of the American Civil War on September 1, 1863 in Sebastian County, Arkansas.

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Benton, Arkansas

Benton is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Arkansas, United States and a suburb of Little Rock.

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Bigfork Chert

The Bigfork Chert is a Middle to Late Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Black Fork Mountain Wilderness

Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Black Warrior Basin

The Black Warrior Basin is a geologic sedimentary basin of western Alabama and northern Mississippi in the United States.

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Blakely Sandstone

The Blakely Sandstone is a Middle Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Blaylock Sandstone

The Blaylock Sandstone is a Silurian geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.

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Boggy Formation

The Boggy Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Broken Bow is a city in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Caddo River

The Caddo River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Cambrian

The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Caney Creek Wilderness

The Caney Creek Wilderness is a rugged segment of the Ouachita National Forest in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Chert

Chert is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Clark County, Arkansas

Clark County is a county located in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Clearcutting

Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

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Collier Shale

The Collier Shale is a geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Cossatot River

The Cossatot River is an river in Howard, Polk and Sevier counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area

Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area is a Arkansas state park in Howard County and Polk County, Arkansas in the United States.

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Crystal Mountain Sandstone

The Crystal Mountain Sandstone is an Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Flatside Wilderness

The Flatside Wilderness is a rugged 9,507-acre protected area in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Foreland basin

A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.

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Garland County, Arkansas

Garland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Hartshorne Formation

The Hartshorne Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto (1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas).

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Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Hot Spring County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs National Park is a United States national park in central Garland County, Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Hot Springs, the county seat.

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Howard County, Arkansas

Howard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Jackfork Sandstone

The Jackfork Sandstone, also referred to as the Jackfork Group, is a geologic formation associated with the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt exposed in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.

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Johns Valley Formation

The Johns Valley Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Juniperus virginiana

Juniperus virginiana — its common names include red cedar, eastern redcedar,Flora of North America: Virginian juniper, eastern juniper, red juniper, pencil cedar, and aromatic cedar — is a species of juniper native to eastern North America from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Great Plains.

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Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine

Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine are a pair of man-made lakes around Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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Lake Hamilton, Arkansas

Lake Hamilton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Garland County, Arkansas, United States.

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Lake Maumelle

Lake Maumelle is a man-made lake in central Arkansas, United States, in Pulaski County, and covers 8,900 acres.

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Lake Ouachita

Lake Ouachita (Pronounced WAH-shi-tah) is a reservoir created by the damming of the Ouachita River by Blakely Mountain Dam.

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Little Missouri River (Arkansas)

The Little Missouri River, or Little Mo, is a waterway that runs from the Ouachita Mountains of southwest Arkansas into the rolling hills area in the surrounding countryside.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.

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Mazarn Shale

The Mazarn Shale is an Early Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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McAlester Formation

The McAlester Formation is a Pennsylvanian geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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McCurtain County, Oklahoma

McCurtain County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Mena, Arkansas

Mena is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, United States.

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Metamorphism

Metamorphism is the change of minerals or geologic texture (distinct arrangement of minerals) in pre-existing rocks (protoliths), without the protolith melting into liquid magma (a solid-state change).

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippian (geology)

The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.

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Missouri Mountain Shale

The Missouri Mountain Shale is a Silurian geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Montgomery County, Arkansas

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Mount Ida, Arkansas

Mount Ida is a city in and county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.

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Mount Magazine

Mount Magazine, officially named Magazine Mountain, is the highest point of the U.S. Interior Highlands and in the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is the site of Mount Magazine State Park.

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Mount Magazine State Park

Mount Magazine State Park is a 2,234-acre park located in Logan County, Arkansas.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Novaculite

Novaculite, also called Arkansas Stone, is a microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline rock type that consists of silica in the form of chert or flint.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ouachita National Forest

The Ouachita National Forest is a National Forest that lies in the western portion of Arkansas and portions of eastern Oklahoma.

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Ouachita National Recreation Trail

Ouachita National Recreation Trail is a long, continuous hiking trail through the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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Ouachita orogeny

The Ouachita orogeny was a mountain building event that resulted in the folding and faulting of strata currently exposed in the Ouachita Mountains.

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Ouachita people

The Ouachita are a Native American tribe who lived in northeastern Louisiana along the Ouachita River.

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Ozarks

The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains and Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods (or upper of two subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period.

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Pike County, Arkansas

Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Pinnacle Mountain State Park

Pinnacle Mountain State Park is a 2,356-acre state park located in Pulaski County, Arkansas just outside of Little Rock.

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Pinus echinata

Pinus echinata, the shortleaf pine, is a species of pine native to the eastern United States from southernmost New York State, south to northern Florida, west to eastern Oklahoma, and southwest to eastern Texas.

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Polk County, Arkansas

Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Polk Creek Shale

The Polk Creek Shale is a Late Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Pulaski County, Arkansas

Pulaski County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas with a population of 392,664, making it the most populous county in Arkansas.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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Queen Wilhelmina State Park

Queen Wilhelmina State Park is a unit of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism in the Ouachita Mountains.

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Quercus acerifolia

Quercus acerifolia (also called maple-leaved oak) is a rare North American species of trees in the beech family.

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Quercus stellata

Quercus stellata (post oak, iron oak) is a North American species of oak in the white oak section.

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Rich Mountain (Arkansas–Oklahoma)

At, Rich Mountain is the second highest point of the U.S. Interior Highlands and Ouachita Mountains, and in the U.S. state of Arkansas; it is also the site of Queen Wilhelmina State Park.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Savanna Sandstone

The Savanna Sandstone or Savanna Formation is a Pennsylvanian geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.

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Sevier County, Arkansas

Sevier County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Sharpening stone

Sharpening stones, water stones or whetstones are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing.

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South American Plate

The South American Plate is a tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America and also a sizeable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate creating the Mid-Atlantic Ridge The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Stanley Shale

The Stanley Shale, or Stanley Group, is a Mississippian stratigraphic unit in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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Syncline

In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure.

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Talimena Scenic Drive

The Talimena Scenic Drive is a National Scenic Byway in southeastern Oklahoma and extreme western Arkansas spanning a stretch of Oklahoma State Highway 1 (SH-1) and Arkansas Highway 88 (AR 88) from Talihina, Oklahoma, to Mena, Arkansas.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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U.S. Interior Highlands

The U.S. Interior Highlands is a mountainous region in the Central United States spanning northern and western Arkansas, southern Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, and extreme southeastern Kansas.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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Volcanism

Volcanism is the phenomenon of eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of the Earth or a solid-surface planet or moon, where lava, pyroclastics and volcanic gases erupt through a break in the surface called a vent.

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William Dunbar (explorer)

William Dunbar (1750–1810) was a Scottish and American merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer.

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Womble Shale

The Womble Shale is a Middle Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouachita_Mountains

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