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Large round boulders on hilltops

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Coragyps
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10-16-2005 10:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Christian
10-16-2005 8:19 PM

Or, if you live west/north of Lawton, Oklahoma, those house-sized rounded boulders that make up the Wichitas are the remains of cores of Everest-class mountains that occupied that spot 540,000,000 years ago. They've eroded a bit since, first by cracking, and then by water smoothing the edges of the cracks until we arrived at today's look. The Granite Wash is a subsurface formation that stretches at least to Amarillo and Pampa, Texas from some ancient quicker episode in that erosion. Lots of gas and oil are down there now.
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Coragyps
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10-17-2005 5:30 PM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Christian
10-17-2005 4:26 PM

Actually it looks like the hills are piles of these boulders.
Like the ones here?
Linky.
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10-18-2005 9:40 PM 		Reply to: Message 38 by Christian
10-18-2005 1:44 AM

Yes, quite a bit like that. Where was that taken?
In the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Reserve northwest of Lawton, Oklahoma. You see very similar rocks/hills from there out to Granite and Mangum. They, as I said above, are the granite cores of ancient, big mountains.
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