Victoria Island is an
island in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, southwest of
Stockton Stockton may refer to:
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.
The island is bounded on the north by North Victoria Canal, on the northeast by Middle River, on the southeast by Victoria Canal, and on the south- and southwest Old River. It is crossed by
California State Route 4
State Route 4 (SR 4) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, routed from Interstate 80 in the San Francisco Bay Area to State Route 89 in the Sierra Nevada. It roughly parallels the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a popular are ...
.
It is in
San Joaquin County, and managed by
Reclamation District 2040.
It appears on 1913 and 1952
United States Geological Survey maps of the area.
Buried impact structure
Oil exploration led to the discovery of a possible buried
impact structure
An impact structure is a generally circular or craterlike geologic structure of deformed bedrock or sediment produced by impact on a planetary surface, whatever the stage of erosion of the structure. In contrast, an impact crater is the surface ...
in the sediments under the island. It was named the
Victoria Island Structure
The Victoria Island structure is a bowl-shaped structure buried in the shale sediments of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, west of Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Jo ...
after the island.
See also
*
List of islands of California
References
Islands of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
Islands of Northern California
Islands of San Joaquin County, California
Islands of California
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