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Glass Mountains

Index Glass Mountains

The Glass Mountains (also known as Gloss Mountains or Gloss Hills) are not actually mountains, but a series of mesas and buttes that are part of the Blaine Escarpment that extends from the Permian red beds of northwestern Oklahoma in Major County. [1]

13 relations: Alluvium, Butte, Cherokee Outlet, Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary), Gloss Mountain State Park, Major County, Oklahoma, Mesa, Orienta, Oklahoma, Permian, Quaternary, Red beds, Selenite (mineral), U.S. Route 412.

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Butte

In geomorphology, a butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and table landforms.

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Cherokee Outlet

The Cherokee Outlet, often mistakenly referred to as the Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States.

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Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary)

The Cimarron River extends across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.

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Gloss Mountain State Park

Glass Mountains State Park (also called Gloss Mountain State Park) is an Oklahoma state park located in Major County, Oklahoma, near the city of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Major County, Oklahoma

Major County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Mesa

Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for table) is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs.

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Orienta, Oklahoma

Orienta is a small unincorporated community located at the junction U.S. Highway 60 and U.S. Highway 412 in Major County, Oklahoma.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Red beds

Red beds (or redbeds) are sedimentary rocks, which typically consist of sandstone, siltstone, and shale that are predominantly red in color due to the presence of ferric oxides.

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Selenite (mineral)

Selenite, satin spar, desert rose, and gypsum flower are four varieties of the mineral gypsum; all four varieties show obvious crystalline structure.

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U.S. Route 412

U.S. Route 412 is an east–west United States highway, first commissioned in 1982.

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Glass Mountain State Park, Gloss Mountains State Park, Gloss mountains.

References

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

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