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2. Geography of southern California - Wikipedia

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   The Santa Ana Mountains are the largest natural landscape along the coast of southern California. These mountains peak at about 5,689 feet, on Santiago Peak. [30] This range starts in the north, in the Corona area heading southeast of the Puente Hills region. Peaks of the Peninsular Ranges.

3. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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   Geography of California. Coordinates: 37°9′58″N119°26′58″W37.16611°N 119.44944°W. Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces. California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2 ), California is among the most geographically ...

4. Southern California - Wikipedia

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   Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area (the second most populous urban agglomeration in the United States ) [4] [5] as well as the Inland Empire (another large metropolitan ...

5. Los Angeles Basin - Wikipedia

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   The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an anomalous group of east-west trending chains of mountains collectively known as the Transverse Ranges. The present basin is a coastal lowland area, whose floor is marked by elongate low ...

6. Transverse Ranges - Wikipedia

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   Pacific Coast Ranges. The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America. The Transverse Ranges begin at the southern end of the California Coast Ranges and lie within Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties.

7. Geology and geological history of California - Wikipedia

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   Geological history. The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert. The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are ...