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The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits) known variously as the Calico Hills, the Yermo Hills, or ...
Burmese amber - also known as burmite, is a Cretaceous age amber about 99 million years old found mainly in the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma). The most common amber containing insect inclusions of the Cenomanian, mined in a very large amount since late 2010s and became one of the most available types of amber.
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 common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...
First train depot in Ventura County, built in 1887 [19] 24: Hueneme Wharf (original site) Corner of Seaview St. and Hueneme Rd. Port Hueneme: 3/72: Thomas R. Bard built the county's first wharf, 900 feet long, at this location in 1871; destroyed by storm in 1938 [20] 25: Matilija Hot Springs: 788 West Hot Springs Rd. Ojai: 8/72
A 7-month-old girl suspected of being abducted was found safe a few hours after the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for six counties in the greater Sacramento area on Thursday morning.
A 3-year-old boy and his mother, who was suspected of abducting him, were located using GPS and an aircraft typically employed to map wildfires. They were found in a river canyon in Nevada County ...
Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte County in 1857, and in 1874 the remainder was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.
On February 10, 1990, human remains were found on an embankment off Yankee Jims Road in Colfax, a small town about an hour away from Lake Tahoe, according to a Placer County Sheriff’s Office ...