An Introduction to the Ouachitas

[@rjsoldani19]

Just visited Boston mtns, and Ouachitas. Reminded me of Northern California, and I was blown away by the diverse landscapes. Great video, thank you!

[@rangerdoc1029]

There's areas that remind me an awful lot of Northern Arizona

[@claireaudient]

I’m preparing to visit the area for the eclipse and your description is both richly informative and enjoyable. Mt Ida would be an exquisite place to experience the eclipse! Thank you for this wonderful explanation of geological history.

[@David_Goza]

I hope you enjoy the eclipse! I plan to get over that way to watch it; have my eye on Mt. Magazine as a likely vantage point .

[@selcouthconcepts]

Wow! This video is just what I was looking for. This is a good, in-depth explanation of the geology of the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. Now I have a better idea of where I want to go hike. Thank you sharing!

[@rangerdoc1029]

This was great! Thanks

[@BrooksBarrow]

Really enjoyed this presentation

[@gotmorris]

Interesting video. I'm from Dardanelle.

[@David_Goza]

Dardanelle Rock always used to catch my eye on my trips across-river. It's an erosional remnant of a synclinal fold in the Hartshorne sandstone. There's a lot of Hartshorne sandstone in Clarksville, where I'm from.

[@phillipthomas1379]

Love it thank you morrilton arkansas here

[@David_Goza]

I hail from Clarksville, about 50 miles down the road.

[@thesnodgrasschannel6782]

Well hello Gandalf

[@dianespears6057]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@SophiaGarcia-w5g]

Hi! thank you for this explanation! Question: why have the Ozarks avoided such compressional forces? Are they too far north of the orogenic belt?

[@David_Goza]

Excellent question - and I wish I had an answer. It seems to me that the relationship between the Ouachitas and the Ozarks is analogous to that of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, but on a much smaller scale. In both cases you have intense compressional forces at the suture zone in a larger context of general uplift. But please understand that this is the hunch of a musician not the informed insight of a geologist!

[@SophiaGarcia-w5g]

Interesting! Thank you for your thoughts regardless!@@David_Goza

[@paulallen3557]

Really interesting and well presented. Didn't know about the relationship between the Ouachitas and the Appalachian range. You're speaking of the "real" mountains like the Blue Ridge. I live in the Kentucky part of the Cumberland Plateau. It's like our plateu's relationship to the Blue Ridge is pretty much the same as the Ozarks to the Ouachitas. I like those highlands out there in Arkansas and have visited a number of times. The terrain and culture is so like home.

[@hgbugalou]

Excellent video sir. Far few are good scientific videos on this region. I really consider Arkansas extremely unique frog a geology perspective and far too understudied. There is a lot going on in the state, all it lacks is active volcanism, and it has remnants of it still even.

[@wapbopaloubopramalamadingdong]

you're in the feathers of quezacotl.