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Builders soon found that the stones were useful for more than just jewelry. The sand and stones became components of streets, sidewalks and foundations. It is believed that 10,000 loads [vague] of the stones were crushed and used in the foundation of the Southern California Edison plant built in Redondo Beach in 1907. [3]
Two human skeletons, a male and a female, were found in La Jolla, California, in 1976; they date back at least 9,500 years. They were found during construction work on a house. They were the subject of a decade-long legal battle. The University of California decided to return the remains to one of the local Kumeyaay Indian bands. This was done ...
Researchers at McGill University found a rock with a very old model age for extraction from the mantle (3.8 to 4.28 billion years ago) in the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt on the coast of Hudson Bay, in northern Quebec; [2] the true age of these samples is still under debate, and they may actually be closer to 3.8 billion years old. [3]
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Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, California, January 2013. The recorded history of the Newport Beach, California region began when the area was first explored by Europeans in the 1500s. Prior to that time, Native Americans such as the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño people had been living in the area for thousands of years. Explorer Juan ...
“And it represents an entire ecology of the ocean 9 millions of years ago.” The fossils were first uncovered during the school’s modernization project, which began in 2022.
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Because gold is denser than almost all other minerals, this process further concentrated the gold as it sank, and pockets of gold gathered in quiet gravel beds along the sides of old rivers and streams. [8] The California mountains rose and shifted several times within the last fifty million years, and each time, old streambeds moved and were ...