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Red Rock Canyon State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California which features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations. The park consists of approximately 27,000 acres (110 km 2) within the Mojave Sector of the Tehachapi District of the California State Park System, and is located along State Highway 14 in Kern County, about 80 miles (129 km) east of Bakersfield ...
"Jurassic Wonder Dinosaur Drive Thru" takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Richland County Fairgrounds. The dinosaurs move and make sounds. Ted Hill, creator of the show, says it is designed for ...
Jurassic Quest, an interactive dinosaur event, returns to the Bayfront Convention Center on July 12-14. Jurassic Wonder drive-thru is set for Wattsburg Fair July 13-14.
Cabazon Dinosaurs, formerly Claude Bell's Dinosaurs, is a roadside attraction in Cabazon, California, featuring two enormous, steel-and-concrete dinosaurs named Dinny the Dinosaur and Mr. Rex. Located just west of Palm Springs, the 150-foot-long (46 m) Brontosaurus and the 65-foot-tall (20 m) Tyrannosaurus rex are visible from the freeway to travelers passing by on Southern California's ...
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Although most of the Franciscan is Early/Late Jurassic through Cretaceous in age (150-66 Ma), [7] some Franciscan rocks are as old as early Jurassic (180-190 Ma) age and as young as Miocene (15 Ma). [8] The different age distribution represents the temporal and spatial variation of mechanisms that operated within the subduction zone. [9]
The Great Valley Sequence of California is a 40,000-foot (12 km)-thick group of related geologic formations that are Late Jurassic through Cretaceous in age (150–65 Ma) on the geologic time scale. These sedimentary rocks were deposited during the late Mesozoic Era in an ancient seaway that corresponds roughly to the outline of the modern ...
Whatever the conditions under which the Coast Range ophiolite formed, it has undergone much deformation and dismemberment since the Jurassic period resulting in the wide distribution of ophiolite fragments across the California coast. One of the main drivers of this ophiolite dismemberment is the active San Andreas fault.