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Lakeport is an incorporated city and the county seat of Lake County, California. [5] This city is 125 miles (201 km) northwest of Sacramento. Lakeport is on the western shore of Clear Lake, [7] at an elevation of 1,355 feet (413 m). [5] The population was 5,026 at the 2020 census, up from 4,753 at the 2010 census.
Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp. ISBN 9780520233157. Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier ...
The Vaqueros Formation is a sedimentary geologic unit primarily of Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene age, which is widespread on the California coast and coastal ranges in approximately the southern half of the state. It is predominantly a medium-grained sandstone unit, deposited in a shallow marine environment.
Small tar pit. La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
Oldest fossils of heterokonts, including both marine diatoms and silicoflagellates. 115 Ma First monotreme mammals. 114 Ma Earliest bees. [94] 112 Ma Xiphactinus, a large predatory fish, appears in the fossil record. 110 Ma First hesperornithes, toothed diving birds. Earliest limopsid, verticordiid, and thyasirid bivalves. 100 Ma First ants. [95]
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Lake County, California, highlighting Lakeport in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape. Date: 30 July 2007: Source: My own work, based on public domain information. Based on similar map concepts by Ixnayonthetimmay: Author: Arkyan
The MesozoicEra formation can regionally overlie the Vaqueros Formation, and can regionally underlie the Martinez Formation or Tejon Formation.. The Chico Formation is exposed in the Southern California Coast Ranges, western San Joaquin Valley, north of Mount Diablo, and in the Chico area of the northeastern Sacramento Valley.
The Chatsworth Formation is a Cretaceous period sandstone geologic formation in the Simi Hills and western Santa Susana Mountains of southern California. [1] [2] It is found in western Los Angeles County and eastern Ventura County. The formation's thickness can be more than 610 metres (2,000 ft). [3]