Marta; You may get more responses than you may have imagined on the question as to where and what is Sand Mountain. I'll give you my, more or less, laymans discription and perhaps the more geographically astute may be able to give a more technical definition: First of all, Sand Mountain describes an extended geographical area (ridge) that extends (roughly) from Birmingham nearly all the way to Chattanooga TN. Some of the towns and villages on that elevated sandy / rocky ridge are; Oneonta, Albertville, Boaz, Geraldine, Fyffe, Rainsville, Ider and, of course, some that I've probably left out. Generally speaking the Sand Mountain ridge rises to the east of the Tennessee River Valley and parallells it and Interstate 59. Interstate 59 being rather to the east of the ridge. Actually, I guess a geologist would say there are a series of ridges and valleys parallelling each other through the area of North Eastern AL that are the "tail-end" of the Appalachian chain which runs all the way through the Great Smoky mountains and on to the State of New York. As I said . . . that's rather a layman's view of the geology of the area but perhaps that will help answer your question! Ken Hinkle -----Original Message----- From: marta [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 3:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: sand mountain Where is and what is Sand Mountain?