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California rocks!: a guide to geologic sites in the Golden State
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Geologic time scale -- Plate tectonics and California -- Northeast California. Lava Beds National Monument: caves in basalt -- Mount Shasta: a stratovolcano -- Castle Crags State Park: exfoliation joints in granitic rock -- McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park: a spring-fed waterfall -- Lassen Volcanic National Park: eruptions and boiling springs -- North Coast. Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park: Josephine Ophiolite -- Crescent City: tsunami country -- Patrick's Point State Park: Franciscan melange and younger rocks -- Cache Creek Natural Area: the great valley sequence -- Salt Point State Park: trace fossils -- San Francisco Bay Area. Sonoma Coast State Park: sea stacks -- Calistoga's Petrified Forest: petrified wood -- Napa Valley: terroir of wine -- Point Reyes National Seashore: The San Andreas Fault and the rocks it brought with it -- Golden Gate National Recreation Area: radiolarian chert and pillow basalt -- Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve: young volcanics in the Coast Range -- Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve: California coal -- Mount Diablo State Park: trail through time -- Vasco Caves Regional Preserve: concretions in sandstone -- Mavericks Surf Break: seafloor topography -- San Gregorio State Beach: sea caves and trace fossils -- Bean Hollow State Beach: tafoni and graded bedding -- Los Trancos Open Space Preserve: the 1906 earthquake -- Almaden Quicksilver County Park: mercury mine -- Sierra Nevada. Sutter Buttes: a young volcanic center -- Empire Mine State Historic Park: hard rock gold mine -- Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park: hydraulic mining of placer deposits -- Mather Regional Park: vernal pools -- Lake Tahoe: history of a basin -- Grover Hot Springs State Park: Sierra volcanics -- California State Mining and Mineral Museum: gemstones and gold -- Yosemite National Park: sculpting by water and ice -- Kings Canyon National Park: mineralogy of granite -- Sequoia National Park: caves in marble --
Eastern Sierra. Bodie State Historic Park: gold mining ghost town
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve: pillars of limestone
Panum Crater: a very recent eruption
Devils Postpile National Monument: columns in a lava flow
Horseshoe Lake: carbon dioxide tree kill
Hot Creek Geological Site: hot geysers in a cold creek
Convict Lake: a roof pendant central coast
Castle Rock State Park: tafoni weathering of sandstone
Natural Bridges State Beach: coastal erosion
Carmel River State Beach: submarine Monterey Canyon
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve: the salinian block and the carmelo formation
Morro Bay State Park: a line of volcanic plugs
Pinnacles National Monument: a volcano split by the San Andreas fault south coast
Gaviota State Park: the Monterey formation
Kern County Museum: black gold
Red Rock Canyon State Park: miocene fossils
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area: transverse ranges
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area: red conglomerates and fanglomerates
Devils Punchbowl County Park: folded and faulted rocks
La Brea Tar Pits: ice age fossils
Abalone Cove Shoreline Park: landslides
Crystal Cove State Park: marine terraces
San Onofre State Beach: Cristianitos Fault
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve: sedimentary features along the beach trail
Mission Trails Regional Park: mountain of granite
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park: rocks of the peninsular ranges
Deserts. Death Valley National Park: salt flats in a closed basin
Mojave National Preserve: sand dunes and volcanic tuff
Joshua Tree National Park: rock weathering
Salton Sea State Recreation Area: a saline lake
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: flash floods.
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