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The Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma are a small range thwarted by Interstate
Highway #35 just fifty miles north of the Texas/Oklahoma border. They are almost obscure
to the casual traveler seeking ski slopes and higher altitudes, but are perhaps the world’s
most important point of scientific interest relating to universal creation. Geologists have
Arbuckle clastics associated with the Wichita Mountains in western Oklahom and to coarse
clastic sediments of the Texas panhandle. Chronicles disclose Arbuckle faulting occurred
300,000,000 years ago, ending in the Permian period (which began 280,000,000 years
ago), and that the Ouachita Mountains of eastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas
override subsurface Arbuckle orogeny. Hence the Ouachita Mountains may be somewhat
later in time.

We agree that the Ouachita Mountains came later than the Arbuckles - - perhaps only
minutes later. Like earth itself, both ranges are extremely aged. Regardless of structural age,
the (New) Appalachians, Ouachita, Ozarks, Rockies, and most all of their attributive ranges,
were aged when they arrived on earth less than 5,000 years ago. The Arbuckles have a
principal surface spread of little more than one hundred square miles, but they have an
orogeny second to none on earth. Besides close relationship with the Ouachitas, Ozarks,
Appalachians, and Rockies, the Arbuckles are also related to the astronomical magnanimity
known as Halley’s Comet, now in it sixty-sixth orbit.
Prior to August 27, 2896 B. C., the Arbuckles were core formations of a planetesimal , and
were located about 750 miles deep inside a spherical form…a small stratified planet about
half the size of earth’s moon.

Events of evolution are sometimes unbelievably slow to come, but recognizing masterpieces
of creation are inevitable in due course of time. We, the authors, became acquainted with
the Arbuckle Mountains in the early 1930’s. We watched the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC)
and Public Works Administration (PWA) improve Turner Falls Area. Arbuckle Lake and
Chickasaw National Recreation Area were wilderness in the of our youth. Interstate
Highway #35 was not yet a conception. Our interest in the Arbuckle Mountains was further
stimulated by these, but not until the last of our eight children finished high school could we
further our own education.

Although we regret delay in promulgating our view of the Arbuckle Mountains, truth is
always better later than never. The Arbuckles are biblical. Like Noah’s ark, the burning
bush, the birhtplace of Christ…all implausible to Darwinism…the Arbuckle Mountains are
destined to be the beginning point for setting man straight in his quest about creation. The
Arbuckles still retain their beauty. More importantly, best of the Arbuckles is yet to come…to
earth science, theology, astronomy, and to Oklahoma’s economy.

In 1976, we helped our five sons move baled hay from a meadow on Caddo Creek (south of
Turner Falls) to a mow located in Ardmore. We had to cross a stray stretch of Arbuckle
orogeny only a few miles northwest of Ardmore. Upon finding what appeared to be a whole
bed of fossilized kelp (a well-known seaweed) embedded in stratified granitic clastics which
formed a lengthy natural terrace, our curiosities were kindled to an all-time high. Unwilling
to let a discovery of this nature hinder our children’s education, we returned to the scene on
the following Sunday afternoon to begin a seemingly unending excursion as free time and
vacation periods would permit.

Typical of the haphazard arrangement of Arbuckle strata, rock layers in the terrace were
uniformly vertical and lie on a gentle curve. Keeping a sharp lookout for rattlesnakes, we
ignored the bravery of a pack of young coyotes who appeared to be unafraid of our presence.
Joanna took time out to capture a huge tarantula for her flower garden. Being well over a
mile from end to end, the afternoon was almost gone by the time we traced the terrace to
where it fades into earth. All rock are fossilized form of something, from feces to flora or
fauna, but rock in this terrace are filled with identifiable flora of mostly kelp beds -- kelp
beds that have been preserved for millions of year to help humanity understand the earliest
incunabulum of planets and universal creation -- precisely as it is depicted in the Bible.

The sun was only an hour or so above the western horizon when we headed for higher
ground. From the Junction of State Highway #53, we drove northward on I-35 to a scenic
turnout at mile marker #49. Here we delved into studying inverted curvature of a stratified
ridge that had been cut through by construction of I-35. At this point and time, the cutaway
(more then fifty feet deep) offered nothing conclusive -- only that it had fallen in place from
a northerly direction and was truly another befitting piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle we faced.

During the months that followed, we trekked and photographed every foot of the I-35
cutaway. At soil conservation offices in both Murray and Carter counties, we studied aerial
photographs of the Arbuckles. Still unable to get a firm grip on the subject, we obtained our
own aerial photographs from a company in New Mexico. The Arbuckle Mountains are
fragments of a broken - up planet from outer space that collided with earth almost 5,000
years ago.

Who, when, where, why, how much, and what else are but a few questions that dominated
out curiosities. Were we dealing with a subject of astronomy or geology? But this didn’t
really matter because our college credits were earned at Corral University…where celestial
bodies were adorable elements of courtship and rocks were provocative pests to all walks of
life.
Who? -- We call the little planet Jojo (Joe-Joe). We gave it a name, Jojoba (Hehoba) after
the small jojoba tree in Mexico, over which its course is plotted as the planet approached
collision with earth while both it and its icy covering were yet in natural form.