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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A low mountain range between the Arkansas and Red Rivers extending about 330 km (200 mi) from central Arkansas to southeast Oklahoma. Magazine Mountain, 840 m (2,753 ft), is the highest point in the range and the highest elevation in Arkansas.
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Just as exciting to me as the hot springs was discovering that that Ouachita Mountains are packed with crystal deposits.
Christine Buckley: Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Best Kept Secret In America Christine Buckley 2011
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Just as exciting to me as the hot springs was discovering that that Ouachita Mountains are packed with crystal deposits.
Christine Buckley: Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Best Kept Secret In America Christine Buckley 2011
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The valley with the world-famous mineral springs in the Ouachita Mountains has always been a separate place from the rest of Arkansas: part restorative mecca, part safe haven, diverse, cosmopolitan, open to all the competing impulses and contradictions of human beings.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The valley with the world-famous mineral springs in the Ouachita Mountains has always been a separate place from the rest of Arkansas: part restorative mecca, part safe haven, diverse, cosmopolitan, open to all the competing impulses and contradictions of human beings.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The valley with the world-famous mineral springs in the Ouachita Mountains has always been a separate place from the rest of Arkansas: part restorative mecca, part safe haven, diverse, cosmopolitan, open to all the competing impulses and contradictions of human beings.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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The valley with the world-famous mineral springs in the Ouachita Mountains has always been a separate place from the rest of Arkansas: part restorative mecca, part safe haven, diverse, cosmopolitan, open to all the competing impulses and contradictions of human beings.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Total dissolved solids and hardness values are higher than in the Ouachita Mountains (36), but are lower than in many other parts of Oklahoma.
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Streams in the eastern part of Ecoregion 35d drain the more rugged, lithologically distinct Ouachita Mountains (36); aquatic flora and fauna assemblages are influenced by the Ouachitas and are distinct from western streams.
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The folded Ouachita Mountains (36) are underlain by Paleozoic sandstone, shale, and chert and mostly covered by pine – upland hardwood forests.
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Strata are much less deformed, and ridges are less defined, than in the Ouachita Mountains (36).
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