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📘 A range that looks like a wrinkle

Look down before you hunt for a summit. The Coast Ranges arrive as parallel folds, not one clean wall.

2
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~10 min
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. Scraped from the oceanExplain the Coast Ranges as an accretionary wedge between the Central Valley and the Pacific plate boundary.Scraped ocean-floor material, later faulting, and landmarks like Pinnacles show a range still being rearranged.
  2. Fault, fog, and forestConnect the San Andreas system, coastal fog and redwood distribution to the range's modern landscape.Straight fault traces, marine fog and forest fringes make the Coast Ranges a sharp boundary between ocean weather and inland dryness.

Questions this course answers

What mainly built the Coast Ranges?

USGS and regional geology describe the ranges as material scraped from an oceanic plate and compressed against the continent.

What does Pinnacles National Park illustrate?

NPS geology explains Pinnacles as the eroded western half of a volcano separated from its eastern half by fault motion.

Why do redwoods cluster near the coast in this range?

NPS and regional ecology describe fog as a key moisture source for coastal redwood forests.

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