Geologists: Arkansas once bordered what is now Gulf of Mexico | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Emergency USA

Geologists: Arkansas once bordered what is now Gulf of Mexico | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Emergency USA


A case for state’s naming rights

January 25, 2025 at 10:46 p.m.

Bill Bowden



The United States during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 66 to 100 million years ago, is shown in this United States Geological Survey courtesy photo. (USGS public domain photo)

The Gulf of Mexico once stretched into Arkansas, its waves lapping at Hope and Little Rock.

But that was about 50 million years ago, long before anyone thought of renaming it the Gulf of America.

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