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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 ...
Dinosaur Drive Thru is schedule from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Richland County Fairgrounds. Tickets are sold online in time slot-windows to reduce long traffic lines. The cost ...
Jurassic Wonder drive-thru is set for Wattsburg Fair July 13-14. Jurassic Quest, an interactive dinosaur event, returns to the Bayfront Convention Center on July 12-14. Jurassic Wonder drive-thru ...
US 97 / SR 161 near Dorris, CA: South end: Route 89 at Forest Service Road 15, Modoc National Forest, near Bartle, CA: Lassen Scenic Byway (loop road) North end: SR 44 / SR 89 near Old Station, CA: South end: SR 147 / SR 89 near Canyondam, CA: Lassen Scenic Byway bypass; From: SR 36 / SR 147 near Westwood, CA: From: SR 36 / SR 89 near Chester ...
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (/ ˈ æ n z ə b ə ˈ r eɪ ɡ oʊ /, AN-zə bə-RAY-goh) is a California State Park located within the Colorado Desert of Southern California, United States. The park takes its name from 18th century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and borrego , a Spanish word for sheep. [ 1 ]
The Coast Range Ophiolite is an ophiolite of Middle to Late Jurassic age located in the California Coast Ranges. It forms the basement of the extreme western margin of central and northern California. Exposures straddle the coast from Santa Barbara County up to San Francisco.
The Aztec Sandstone is an Early Jurassic geological formation of primarily eolian sand from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered. [4] The formation is exposed in the Mojave Desert of Arizona, California and Nevada. Aztec Sandstone is named after the Aztec Tank, [5] a lake in the Spring Mountain region of Nevada.
The Franciscan also contains large bodies of limestone pure enough for making cement, and the Permanente Quarry near Cupertino, California is a giant open-pit mine in a body of Franciscan limestone that supplied most of the cement for building the Shasta Dam across the Sacramento River. [24]