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The Santa Susana Field Laboratory ( SSFL ), formerly known as Rocketdyne, is a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre (1,080 ha) [ 1] portion of Southern California in an unincorporated area of Ventura County in the Simi Hills between Simi Valley and Los Angeles. The site is located approximately 18 ...
The field is on the southern slope of the Santa Susana Mountains, an east-west trending range dividing the San Fernando Valley on the south from the Santa Clarita Valley on the north-northeast. With some of its productive wells set at an elevation over 3,000 feet, it is one of the highest and most rugged oil fields in California. [ 3 ]
Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park is located in the Simi Hills, just south of the Santa Susana Pass, at the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. The Santa Susana Mountains are not as steep or high as the San Gabriel Mountains. The western half of the range lies in Ventura County, and the eastern half lies in Los Angeles County.
Pacific Coast Ranges. The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America. The Transverse Ranges begin at the southern end of the California Coast Ranges and lie within Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties.
The Sierra Madre Fault Zone highlighted in red. Situated at the boundary to the San Gabriel Valley and San Fernando Valley, the Sierra Madre Fault Zone (also known as the Sierra Madre-Cucamonga Fault) runs along the southern edge of the San Gabriel Mountains for a total of 95 kilometers (59 mi), where the northwesternmost 19 km (12 mi) comprises the San Fernando Fault (the section responsible ...
name = San Fernando Valley Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map San Fernando Valley.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 34.369 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 34.069 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -118.668 Longitude at left edge of map, in ...
The neighborhood of North Hills is located in the central San Fernando Valley, a region of the city of Los Angeles. [2] It is intersected by the 405 Freeway and lies between Bull Creek and the Pacoima Wash. By road, it is 21 miles northwest of downtown; [2] In relation to the cities surrounding Los Angeles, the neighborhood is about 17 miles ...
The North American continent is home to a wide variety of carnivorous plant species. Species from seven genera are native to the continent, and three of these genera are found nowhere else on the planet. Fly trapped by Dionaea muscipula. Limonia fly trapped by Drosera filiformis. Collembola ( Dicyrtomina minuta) trapped inside a leaf of ...