The Ouachita Mountains run east to west, "the only place in the hemisphere where this occurs".
"Back in the early times before the dinosaurs, Arkansas was on the shore of a deep ocean, called the Ouachita Basin."
" But it didn't stop there. It created Louisiana and all of the southeastern gulf coast that we know and love. That's why people from Texas and Louisiana come to Arkansas to collect rocks, and why people from Arkansas drive eight hours south for our seashore vacations!"
Also your part of Texas, Richard. :-)
I racked up a lot of vertical foot mobile miles there in 1966 installing equipment for
a military aircraft under the radar target acquisition exercise. No GPS to tell you where you wuz.
Frederick
