St. Francis River
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The St. Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 426 miles long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and f
The St. Francis River at Lake City, Arkansas is placid and silt-laden.
The St. Francis River rises in the granite mountains of the eastern Ozarks where it is a clear, rapid stream.
Silver Mine Dam on the upper St. Francis River
St. Francois Mountains
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The St. Francois Mountains in southeast Missouri are a mountain range of Precambrian igneous mountains rising over the Ozark Plateau. This range is one of the oldest exposures of igneous rock in North
St. Francis River
…Missouri Bootheel. The river rises in a region of granite mountains in Iron County, Missouri, and flows generally southwardly through the Ozarks and the St. Francois Mountains near Missouri's highest point Taum Sauk. It forms the Missouri-Arkansas border in the Bootheel and eventually exits the state at Missouri's lowest point…
A view towards the St. Francois range from Knob Lick Mountain, a granite and rhyolite knob on the edge of the range
Boulders in Elephant Rocks State Park are residual boulders of weathered Graniteville Granite, a pluton formed 1.4 billion years ago in the Proterozoic by the cooling of magma.
Granite from this region was used for cobblestones on the St. Louis wharf and in the piers of the Eads Bridge (background).
Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest point in Missouri.