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El Capitán State Beach is a protected beach in the state park system of California. The most easterly of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast , it is located about 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Santa Barbara , in Santa Barbara County .
Sea level rose and fell often during this period of the Eocene Epoch in geologic history. About 42 million years ago, sea level rose again and more sand was deposited. Compressed and cemented, it makes the rock known as the Scripps Formation. This rock holds up the sea bluffs north of Moonlight Beach. Because the mudstone and siltstone of the ...
The ranch is within Rancho Dos Pueblos, a 15,535-acre (62.87 km 2) Mexican land grant, stretching between the Goleta Slough and the boundary of El Capitan State Beach. [52] [53] Dos Pueblos Institute uses the ranch as an outdoor classroom teaching sustainable agriculture and provides Chumash bands with a place for ceremonies. [54]
The type locality for the Coldwater Sandstone is in Coldwater Canyon, a western branch of the Sespe River a few miles north of Fillmore. [1]: 32 The unit is typically around half a mile thick, ranging from 2,500 to 3,200 feet through most of its extent, although it thins westward to around 1,000 feet thick in the hills north of El Capitan State Beach.
Refugio State Beach (Chumash: Qasil, "Beautiful" [3]) is a protected state beach park in California, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Barbara. [4] One of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast , it is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of El Capitán State Beach .
Geology and ground waters of the western part of San Diego County, California. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey. Kennedy, Michael P. (1975). Geology of the San Diego metropolitan area, California. California Division of Mines and Geology. "General Plan Final Program EIR: 3.11 Paleontological Resources" (PDF). City of ...
San Diego: San Elijo SB: San Gregorio State Beach: 1723289: San Mateo: San Gregorio SB: San Onofre State Beach: 248937: San Diego: San Onofre SB: Santa Monica State Beach: 238365: Los Angeles: Santa Monica SB: Schooner Gulch State Beach: 1724251: Mendocino: Schooner Gulch SB: Seacliff State Beach: 232753: Santa Cruz: Seacliff SB: Silver Strand ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...