It’s the Best Geology to be Found Anywhere!

That is the second of some useful resource supplies I’ve on our faculty web site which might be being eliminated, so I wished to protect them. The next is a few information I give to my college students of my “Geology of California” course. For almost all of those college students, it’s their first introduction to geology, and their first introduction to the extraordinary state that’s their dwelling. For a extra full rationalization of every superlative, click on on the orange hyperlinks (down the rabbit gap!). Get pleasure from!

Highest level within the decrease 48 states: Mt. Whitney, 14,505 feet 

Lowest level within the western hemisphere: close to Badwater, Death Valley, -282 feet

The deepest canyon in North America (maybe): Kings Canyon, Large Sequoia Nationwide Monument. Hells Canyon on the Oregon/Idaho border could also be 19 toes deeper. Possibly…

Largest living things in the world: Sequoia Bushes

Tallest living things in the world: Coast Redwoods

Oldest living things in the world: Bristlecone Pines (5,000 years), White Mtns, or Creosote Bushes in Colorado Desert (11,000 years)

My Scottish BBC Interview at a comparatively balmy 110 levels

Hottest Place on the Planet and Driest Place in North America: Demise Valley: 134 levels, precipitation 1.4″/12 months

One of many Snowiest Locations within the U.S.: Tamarack, Sierra Nevada, 76 toes in a single 12 months, 32 toes in a single month, 37 toes on floor at one time

Highest Waterfall in the North America (no. 7 in world): Yosemite Falls, 2,425 toes

Second tallest active volcano in the U.S.: Mt. Shasta, 14,162 toes

Second most recently active volcano in lower 48 states: Mt. Lassen (1914-21)

Most voluminous volcano in the lower 48 states: Medication Lake Highland (round 130 cubic miles) in northeastern California

Scarp from the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake

Some of the largest earthquakes in the lower 48 states: 1906 (San Francisco 7.8), 1872 Lone Pine (7.8), 1857 (Ft. Tejon 7.8)

Previous oil derrick close to the Santa Clarita Valley

One of the more prolific oil and natural gas producing regions in the world: Los Angeles Basin, Bakersfield, and Santa Barbara-Ventura Channel

One of the biggest explosions ever: Lengthy Valley Caldera, 750,000 years in the past, 125 cubic miles of ash unfold all around the western states as far east as Nebraska and Kansas

McWay Falls at Julia Pfeiffer-Burns State Park on the Huge Sur Coast

No other state has the combination of landscapes: Coastlines, deserts, mountains, river valleys and plateaus, due in no small half to the truth that California is influenced by all three totally different sorts of plate margins: Divergent, convergent and rework. Few locations on the earth have this sort of variety.

The San Andreas fault on the San Francisco Peninsula. San Andreas reservoir, from which the fault took its identify, is within the foreground.

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