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The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is a museum and Arkansas state park in Smackover, Arkansas, in the United States. The museum was formed in the 1980s to tell the history of the petroleum industry and later the brine industry as key economic movements spurred by natural resources in South Arkansas .
Smackover is a small city in northern Union County, Arkansas, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population was at 1,865. According to the 2010 census, the population was at 1,865. It had a large oil boom in the 1920s, with production continuing for some time.
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The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable oil boom in southern Arkansas. [citation needed] In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States. [4]
Arkansas is part of what's known as the Smackover Formation, a relic of a 200-million-year-old sea that covered parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
Arkansas Museum of Natural History Hot Springs: Garland: Ouachita Mountains: Multiple website, displays archeological and geological artifacts from Arkansas and from around the world including minerals and fossils Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources: Smackover: Union: Arkansas Timberlands: Industry - Petroleum Petroleum industry in Arkansas
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
The Haynesville Shale is overlain by sandstone of the Cotton Valley Group and underlain by limestone of the Smackover Formation. [3] [4] It contains vast quantities of recoverable natural gas. This natural gas is known as "shale gas" because the wells produce from low permeability mudstones that are also the source for the natural gas. It was ...