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PLACES<\/h1>\n

These Old Hills & Hollers<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Ozark terrain contains unique land forms, shaped during the land’s distant past. The Ozarks, which contain some of the oldest exposed rock in North America, have undergone a series of uplifts, erosional cycles, climatic changes, and geologic events such as volcanoes and earthquakes.<\/p>\n

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Sinewy hickory trunks snake black against brilliant late-fall color. Drury-Mincy Conservation Area, Taney County, Missouri. October 28, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

The land also contains a variety of different rocks from hard, weather-resistant granite to limestone and dolomite that can be dissolved by water.<\/p>\n

Because of this geologic variety, the Ozarks have special landscape features such as sinkholes, shut-ins, weather-shaped large rocks and entrenched meandering steams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 excerpted from the Missouri State Museum, Jefferson City, Missouri.<\/h4>\n
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A sassafras seedling reaches for the sun. Drury-Mincy Conservation Area, Taney County, Missouri. October 28, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

bald knob:<\/h3>\n

a treeless, but usually grass-covered knob. See knob<\/span>. Glossary, page 169<\/p>\n

cove:<\/h3>\n

in Ozark parlance, a narrow, steep-walled valley with a spring or waterfall at the head, which usually falls swiftly to a larger valley at the cove mouth. On Ozark lakes, locals also use the word \u201ccove\u201d as it is widely known, to mean a small, enclosed arm of the lake. Glossary, page 169<\/p>\n

holler:<\/h3>\n

Ozark spelling \/pronounciation of \u201chollow.\u201d The word holler<\/span>, of course, means \u201cto yell\u201d; the two meanings can be distinguished by context. See hollow. Glossary, page 171.<\/p>\n

hollow:<\/h3>\n

a narrow valley or deep depression in the terrain. There are thousands of hollows in the Ozarks, among the hills and knobs. See knob<\/span>. Glossary, page 171<\/p>\n

knob:<\/h3>\n

(sometimes spelled nob<\/span>) a narrow, high hill with a capstone top, surmounted by a dirt dome. Knobs may be tree-covered or bald (without trees but grass-covered. Glossary, page 171<\/p>\n

Excerpts \u2014 Young, Richard & Judy Dockrey, Ozark Ghost Stories,<\/span> August House Publishers Inc., 1995.<\/h4>\n

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