[Cali_Okie_Girl]

very good pics Synopsis! its beautiful there!!

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by Cali_Okie_Girl

very good pics Synopsis! its beautiful there!!

Thanks Cali. The Wichita, Ouachita, and Arbuckle mountains are beautiful.

[peggydavis]

I liked the pic of the stuffed animal with the mountains in the background. I need to go to the Wichita Mountains again.

[_redbird_]

The Wichita mountains are very ancient mountains, were formed in the Cambrian period and are the only range in US that flows east/west. There are some peaks as high as 14000 feet, except the tops of those peaks are roughly 1000 feet below the surface of the area now known as Amarillo, TX.

I used to work at the Natural History museum in Canyon, TX.

I used to sit atop those Wichita mountains and look down at the valleys and imagine what life was like 14,000 years ago when there were mammoth and of course mammoth hunters.

Here are four clovis points found at the Domebo Mammoth Kill site in Caddo County, OK.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/redbird4848/domebogroup4pointssm.jpg (broken link)


The clovis points are from the website:

Domebo Mammoth Kill Site Clovis Points

[mkfarnam]

Redbird, you said "Canyon" Tx,?

I have a lot of pictures of old gas station, here's one of them
and I assume it's in Canyon Tx.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

The Wichita mountains are very ancient mountains, were formed in the Cambrian period and are the only range in US that flows east/west. There are some peaks as high as 14000 feet, except the tops of those peaks are roughly 1000 feet below the surface of the area now known as Amarillo, TX.

I used to work at the Natural History museum in Canyon, TX.

I used to sit atop those Wichita mountains and look down at the valleys and imagine what life was like 14,000 years ago when there were mammoth and of course mammoth hunters.

Here are four clovis points found at the Domebo Mammoth Kill site in Caddo County, OK.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/redbird4848/domebogroup4pointssm.jpg (broken link)


The clovis points are from the website:

Domebo Mammoth Kill Site Clovis Points

Redbird I hate to dispute you on something but there are no peaks in the Wichita Mountains remotely near 14,000 feet. Mount Scott is 2,464 feet, and Mount Pinchot is 12 feet taller at 2,476 feet. They are the second and third tallest peaks in Oklahoma.

Also, I think the only East/West running mountains (one of the very very few) are the Ouachita Mountains. Below is from Wikipedia.

"Unlike most other mountain ranges in the United States, the Ouachitas run east and west rather than north and south."

[peggydavis]

I think Redbird was talking about something I have heard about but I can't find the source. The Wichita mountains we see now are just the tops of the mountains. The rest of the mountains are buried.

[Synopsis]

More Wichita Mountains.







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[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by peggydavis

I think Redbird was talking about something I have heard about but I can't find the source. The Wichita mountains we see now are just the tops of the mountains. The rest of the mountains are buried.

I thought that he meant peaks "were" as high as 14,000 feet but didn't want anyone to be misled into thinking we had 14,000 ft peaks in Oklahoma. Not that I wouldn't like that!

[karibear]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

The Wichita mountains are very ancient mountains, were formed in the Cambrian period and are the only range in US that flows east/west. There are some peaks as high as 14000 feet, except the tops of those peaks are roughly 1000 feet below the surface of the area now known as Amarillo, TX.

I used to work at the Natural History museum in Canyon, TX.

I used to sit atop those Wichita mountains and look down at the valleys and imagine what life was like 14,000 years ago when there were mammoth and of course mammoth hunters.

Here are four clovis points found at the Domebo Mammoth Kill site in Caddo County, OK.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/redbird4848/domebogroup4pointssm.jpg (broken link)


The clovis points are from the website:

Domebo Mammoth Kill Site Clovis Points

That's not exactly true. There are quite a few east-west ranges, both in the continental US and North America overall. The one most in the news is the Brooks Range in Alaska, because that's where the North Slope oil fields are - and it's called the North Slope because it's on the north side of the east-west Brooks Range. Still in AK is the Alaska Range, running east from Denali for quite a way. Alaska is tricky, though, there are five separate ranges, and something like 27 separate tectonic plates all shifting and jostling around.

Closer to OK, are several ranges in CA, the Santa Ynez, San Gabriel, and San Bernadino Ranges. Still closer are the Uinta Mountains in northern Utah, the Mogollon Rim, the Balcones Escarpment, the Ouachita and Boston Mountains on the edge of the Ozark Plateau, and the Holyoke Range in Massachusetts. Not exactly what one would consider a 'mountain range' but old mountains wear down a lot over time.

The Clovis points are great, I get totally engrossed in that kind of thing, wondering just what everyday life was like for those people. I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like, hunting mammoths with nothing but spears and ingenuity. Even the thought of hunting buffalo on horseback is boggling, and that would be relatively easy. But only relatively.