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Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 932-acre (377-hectare) park located in the Sierra Pelona in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is known for its rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later seismic uplift.
The Vasquez Rocks, situated in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, in northern Los Angeles County, California, have been used as a setting for key scenes in many motion pictures, television shows, music videos, and video games. The following is a partial list of such multimedia in which the rock formations are included:
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Vasquez Rocks. Vasquez Rocks has long been used as a popular filming location by the Hollywood movie industry, most notably The Flintstones movie, Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, The Invaders episode "The Saucer", and the Star Trek episode "Arena." The 1971 movie Duel filmed extensively in the area, as was the western film More Dead Than Alive.
The formation crops out in the eponymous Vasquez Rocks, part of the Los Angeles Basin. [3] The formation was deposited in a series of minibasins between the San Gabriel and San Andreas Faults. [4] The Vasquez Formation unconformably overlies Triassic basement of the Mount Lowe intrusive series, and localized the Jurassic syenite occurring in ...
Tiburcio's X and (Vasquez's) Monolith, two rock faces popular with climbers in Pinnacles National Park, were named for the legend that Vásquez hid out in a cave below the Monolith. [ 31 ] Robbers Roost , also known as "Bandit Rock", in Kern County , is named for Vásquez and his gang, who used it as a hideout.
An outcrop example in California is the Vasquez Rocks, familiar from location shooting use in many films, composed of uplifted sandstone. [3] [4] Yana is another example of outcrops, located in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, India.
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