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2. Poway Group - Wikipedia

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   Remnants of submarine fan facies outcrops are found as far west as the northern Channel Islands. Inland Ballena River deposits outcrop discontinuously over 16 miles (26 km) in a west-southwest trend from Whale Mountain to San Vicente Reservoir; here, the river was up to 2 miles (3.2 km) in width through the Peninsular Ranges. [3]

3. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park - Wikipedia

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   Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...

4. Potato Chip Rock - Wikipedia

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   Potato Chip Rock is a natural tourist attraction near San Diego, California, [1] named for its resemblance to a potato chip. The rock is thin and cantilevered over 14 feet. [ 2 ] It is located on the summit of Mt. Woodson at an elevation between 2,700 and 2,800 ft, [ 3 ] in an unincorporated part of San Diego County between Poway and Ramona .

5. Friars Formation - Wikipedia

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   The rocks are nonmarine and lagoonal sandstone and claystone, named for exposures along the north side of Mission Valley near Friars Road. It reaches a maximum thickness of 50 metres (160 ft) between Mission Valley and Carmel Valley .

6. Point Loma Formation - Wikipedia

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   The Point Loma Formation was first described as the middle formation of the Rosario Group by Kennedy and Moore in 1971. Their description is that the lower half is composed of interbedded fine-grained, dusky yellow sandstone and olive-gray clay shale in ledgy graded beds about 20 cm thick, which grades into massive grayish-black siltstone in the top half of the formation.

7. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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   Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a California State Park, preserving an outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes—the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 8 miles (13 km) east of Jackson.

8. Mission Trails Regional Park - Wikipedia

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   The highest point is 1,592-foot-high (485 m) Cowles Mountain, which is also the highest point in the city of San Diego. The San Diego River flows through the park. The park is open every day of the year. The park has 60 miles of hiking, mountain bike and equestrian trails, a rock climbing area, and the Kumeyaay Lake Campground with 46 camp ...

9. Crestwood Summit - Wikipedia

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   Crestwood Summit is a highway pass through the Cuyamaca Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, California, traversed by Interstate 8. Its elevation is 4,190 feet (1,280 m) westbound, and 4,181 feet (1,274 m) eastbound. It is the highest point on Interstate 8.