Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a park located in the
Sierra Pelona
The Sierra Pelona, also known as the Sierra Pelona Ridge or the Sierra Pelona Mountains, is a mountain ridge in the Transverse Ranges in Southern California. Located in northwest Los Angeles County, the ridge is bordered on the north by the San An ...
in northern
Los Angeles County
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,
California
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. It is known for its rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later seismic uplift. It is located near the town of
Agua Dulce, between the cities of
Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita (; Spanish for "Little St. Clare") is a city in northwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. With a 2020 census population of 228,673, it is the third-largest city by population in Los Angeles County, the 17th ...
and
Palmdale
Palmdale is a city in northern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. The city lies in the Antelope Valley region of Southern California. The San Gabriel Mountains separate Palmdale from the Los Angeles Basin to the south.
On Aug ...
. The area is visible from the
Antelope Valley Freeway
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Antelope comprise a wastebasket taxon defined as any of numerous Old World grazing and browsing hoofed mammals ...
(
State Route 14). It has been used as a location for films and television programs on many occasions.
History
These
rock formations
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were formed by rapid erosion during uplift about 25 million years ago, and then later exposed by
uplift activity along the
San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California. It forms the tectonics, tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is Fault (geology)#Strike-slip fau ...
.
The
Tataviam
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people were living here when the Spanish arrived and still live in the region, with a modern tribal government. Their language was most likely a
Takic
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Uto-Aztecan
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language. They lived in grass huts within villages. With the coming of the Spanish missions, some of these people were forced to work there. They eventually began speaking Spanish and inter-marrying with other tribes.
In 1874,
Tiburcio Vásquez
Tiburcio Vásquez (April 11, 1835 – March 19, 1875) was a Californio ''bandido'' who was active in California from 1854 to 1874. The Vasquez Rocks, north of Los Angeles, were one of his many hideouts and are named after him.
Early life
Ti ...
, one of California's most notorious Mexican ''
bandidos
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'', used these rocks to elude capture by law enforcement. His name has since been associated with this geologic feature.
The land and rock formations were acquired gradually by Los Angeles County, beginning with a donation of 40 acres in 1971, with more parcels being added through 2001. The
Pacific Crest Trail
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crosses through the park.
Vasquez Rocks was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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(site #72000228) in 1972 because of its significance as a prehistoric site for the
Shoshone
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* Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming
* Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho
* Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah
* Goshute: western Utah, easter ...
and
Tataviam
The Tataviam (Kitanemuk: ''people on the south slope'') are a Native American group in Southern California. The ancestral land of the Tataviam people includes northwest present-day Los Angeles County and southern Ventura County, primarily in th ...
peoples.
Formation
Literature reviews have dated the earliest sedimentation of the
Vasquez Formation
The Vasquez Formation (Tvz) is a Formation (geology), geologic formation outcrop, cropping out at the eponymous Vasquez Rocks in southern California. The formation dates to the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Arikareean in the North American land ...
occurring between the later portion of the Oligocene Epoch to the lower Miocene Epoch, each respectively 33.9-23 million years ago and 23.03-5.3 million years ago.
The Vasquez Formation is located just east of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California, USA. It resides within the Soledad Basin, an orthogonal rift between the Sierra Pelona Mountains to the northwest and the San Gabriel Mountains to the east, which are both within the province of the Transverse Mountain Range of Southern California.
The
San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California. It forms the tectonics, tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is Fault (geology)#Strike-slip fau ...
runs parallel behind the Sierra Pelona Mountains and separates the formation from the
North American Plate
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.
The Vasquez Formation consists of alluvial sediments that eroded from the Sierra Pelona and San Gabriel Mountains and were deposited in alluvial fans on both sides of the Soledad Basin.
Erosion of the sediment included processes like rain, floods, wind, and earthquakes.
Over the course of millions of years, the sediment was laid down under alternating lacustrine and fluviatile conditions.
Once laid flat across the basin floor, immense pressure converted the layers into sandstone, which became covered with younger sediment deposits. The sediment beds reside in a sharply-folded syncline.
Due to its proximity to the San Andreas Fault, tectonic activity has been an important factor in the reshaping, uplift, and exposure of the buried sandstone. The Elkhorn Fault, an offshoot of the San Andreas Fault, runs through the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park.
Other faults, such as the Pelona, Vasquez Canyon, Soledad, and San Gabriel Faults, are all within proximity of the formation. The most exposed portion of the Vasquez Formation is the oldest tertiary formation within the east portion of the Ventura Basin.
The Vasquez Rocks consist mainly of coarse-grained
conglomerate and
breccia
Breccia () is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
The word has its origins in the Italian language, in which it means "rubble". A breccia may have a variety of di ...
sediments
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, which were deposited adjacent to active
faults during rapid
uplift
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Business
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and consequent
erosion
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of the
San Gabriel Mountains
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. Approximately 25 million years ago (late
Oligocene
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time), the collision of the
North American
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and
Pacific
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tectonic plate
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s uplifted the area along the Elkhorn Fault. Energetic erosion of the highland along with uplift and
volcanism
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caused
debris flow
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sediments to be distributed in
alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates, but a ...
s into a rapidly subsiding
rift
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Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-grabe ...
known as the Soledad Basin.
These sediments were buried and
lithified
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through the
Miocene
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and became exposed more recently via activity along the
San Andreas fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California. It forms the tectonics, tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is Fault (geology)#Strike-slip fau ...
system. The strata are now highly tilted and disconnected from their source area. The strata were deformed and offset by the later fault activity. The distinctive
hogback ridges of steeply inclined
strata
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serve to graphically demonstrate the significant fault activity in the area. It is possible to see the extreme variance in grain size between layers of sediment where the strata are exposed. These sedimentary rocks, named the Mint Canyon Formation, were laid down about 8-15 million years ago. In the upper layers, many animal fossils have been found, including camels, horses and rodents.
Soil surveyors mapped much of the park as ''Rock Land'' with no soil cover; where soil exists the dominant series is Gaviota gravelly loam which ranges from 6 to 20 inches thick.
Ecology
The ecology of the park is characteristic of the
California montane chaparral and woodlands
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ecoregion. The park is primarily covered in short grasses,
scrub oak Scrub oak is a common name for several species of small, shrubby oaks. It may refer to:
*the Chaparral plant community in California, or to one of the following species.
In California
*California scrub oak (''Quercus berberidifolia''), a widespr ...
trees,
California junipers,
yucca
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, and other
chaparral
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shrubs such as
California sagebrush
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Description
''Artemisia californica'' branches from the base and grows out from there, becoming rounded; it gro ...
and
California buckwheat
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.
Role in entertainment
The park's visually interesting terrain and proximity to Hollywood have made it a frequently used filming location since the 1930s. As it was within the
thirty mile zone
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, union actors and crew could be asked to work there without producers needing to pay extra.
Producer
Stanley Bergerman chose it to represent
Tibet
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in the film ''
Werewolf of London
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'' (1935).
It became popular as a setting in westerns in the 1940s and 1950s, followed by numerous television series.
The prominent rock formation was featured as fictional alien settings in four episodes of the original late 1960s ''
Star Trek
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'' series,
from which it gained the nickname "Kirk's Rock".
The location was subsequently used the same way in the films ''
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (1986) and ''
Star Trek
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'' (2009), and episodes of ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''
Star Trek Voyager'', and ''
Star Trek: Enterprise
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''. ''
Star Trek: Picard'' features scenes set and filmed at Vasquez Rocks, making it the first time the rocks were seen as themselves in the series.
Other feature films shot at Vasquez Rocks include ''
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
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'', ''
Amazon Women on the Moon
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;'' ''
Dante's Peak
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;'' ''
The Muppet Movie
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''; ''
Hot Shots! Part Deux
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;'' ''
Rustlers' Rhapsody
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;'' ''
The Flintstones
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;'' ''
Short Circuit
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;'' ''
Blazing Saddles
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;'' ''
Paul
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Hail, Caesar!
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;'' and ''
Hearts of the West
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''. Other television series include ''
Zorro
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'', ''
The Fugitive'', ''
F Troop
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'', ''
The A-Team
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'', ''
MacGyver
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'', ''
Roswell'', and ''
GLOW''. Commercials for
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Bank of America
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Pacific Bell
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have been filmed at the rocks. Musicians
Radiohead
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Michael Jackson
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Greta Van Fleet
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Eddie Money
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Sammy Kershaw
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,
Restless Heart
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Lee Tae-min
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have made music videos there.
Activities
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is open from sunrise to sunset for outdoor activities.
The park has equestrian areas, picnic areas, hiking trails, and rock climbing. The
Pacific Crest Trail
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passes through Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and can be used for short as well as lengthy hikes. Special events can also be hosted there, such as
Star Parties
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and weddings.
See also
*
Bronson Canyon
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, another Southern California landmark used as a set for numerous films
*
*
Soledad Canyon
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References
Bibliography
*
Robert P. Sharp
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, "Southern California", revised edition, K/H Geology Field Guide Series, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 1975. Cover.
Vasquez Rocks (television use in ''Bonanza'' and ''Star Trek'')- (also see its following page)
Los Angeles Orienteering Club- Orienteering Events
External links
*
Vasquez Rocksat
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