Franciscan Assemblage facts for kids
The Franciscan Assemblage is a term in geology that describes a group of rocks near the peninsula of San Francisco, California.
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Ribbon Chert of the Marin Headlands Terrane, exposed at Marshall's Beach, San Francisco.
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Folded blue metacherts with glaucophane-rich layers, exposed in outcrops on Kayak Beach, Angel Island, northern San Francisco Bay.
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Sheared block-in-matrix fabric composed of serpentinite blocks in serpentinite matrix, exposed on Perles Beach, Angel Island, Marin County, California. Pencil for scale. The strong anastomosing foliation is folded, sub-vertical in the lower part of the photo and more gently dipping in the upper part of the photo.
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