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Carrizo Canyon
Carrizo Canyon is a canyon in San Diego County, California. Its mouth is at an elevation of . It heads at in the mouth of Carrizo Gorge Carrizo Gorge is a valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surf ..., at an elevation of , and trends north to where it opens out in southeastern Carrizo Valley less than a mile east of Egg Mountain. References Valleys of San Diego County, California {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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Canyon
A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's River source, headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering. A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains. Examp ...
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San Diego County, California
San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, making it California's second-most populous county and the fifth-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is San Diego, the second-most populous city in California and the eighth-most populous city in the United States. It is the southwesternmost county in the 48 contiguous United States, and is a border county. It is also home to 18 Native American tribal reservations, the most of any county in the United States. San Diego County comprises the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the 17th most populous metropolitan statistical area and the 18th most populous primary statistical area of the United States as of July 1, 2012. San Diego County is also part of the San Diego–Tijuana transborder metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area shar ...
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Carrizo Gorge
Carrizo Gorge is a valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ... in the Jacumba Mountains, in San Diego County, California. Its mouth is at an elevation of , where it widens out to become Carrizo Canyon, northeast of Palm Grove. Its head is located in the Jacumba Mountains, north of Round Mountain, at an elevation of at . References External linksCarrizo Gorge Wilderness- BLM Valleys of San Diego County, California {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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Carrizo Valley
Carrizo Valley is a valley between the Vallecito Mountains and Carrizo Badlands to the north and the Tierra Blanca Mountains, Jacumba Mountains and Coyote Mountains on the south, in San Diego County, California. Its mouth is at an elevation or . Its source is at an elevation of 1,315 feet at at the mouth of the narrow Carrizo Canyon Carrizo Canyon is a canyon in San Diego County, California. Its mouth is at an elevation of . It heads at in the mouth of Carrizo Gorge Carrizo Gorge is a valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mount ... where Vallecito Creek passes between the Tierra Blanca Mountains and Vallecito Mountains. References Valleys of San Diego County, California {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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Egg Mountain (California)
The Two Medicine Formation is a geological formation, or rock body, in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta that was deposited between and (million years ago), during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time. It crops out to the east of the Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt, and the western portion (about thick) of this formation is folded and faulted while the eastern part, which thins out into the Sweetgrass Arch, is mostly undeformed plains. Below the formation are the nearshore (beach and tidal zone) deposits of the Virgelle Sandstone, and above it is the marine Bearpaw Shale. Throughout the Campanian, the Two Medicine Formation was deposited between the western shoreline of the Late Cretaceous Interior Seaway and the eastward advancing margin of the Cordilleran Overthrust Belt. The Two Medicine Formation is mostly sandstone, deposited by rivers and deltas. History of research In 1913, a US Geological Survey crew headed by Eugene Stebinger and a US National Museum crew headed ...
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