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  2. Matanzas Creek - Wikipedia

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    The stream runs the length of Bennett Valley [3] between Taylor Mountain and Bennett Mountain, flowing under Grange Road near Bennet Valley Road, through Matanzas Creek Reservoir and Bennett Valley Golf Course to the city of Santa Rosa. In Santa Rosa, the creek parallels Creekside Road, Cypress Road, and Hoen Avenue westward to Doyle Community ...

  3. Healdsburg Fault - Wikipedia

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    The upper soil surface above the Santa Rosa Plain is composed of Plio-Pleistocene alluvial fan deposits. Further north, one encounters Quaternary alluvium from the Russian River and its tributaries. North and east of Healdsburg, the Healdsburg fault cuts through Lower Cretaceous marine rocks with stringers of Mesozoic ultrabasic intrusive ...

  4. Doyle Community Park - Wikipedia

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    Frank Doyle (1863–1948) and his father Manville Doyle formed the Exchange Bank of Santa Rosa in 1890. Frank purchased the land for Doyle Community Park as a memorial for his 13-year-old son who died during tonsillectomy surgery in 1921. [6] Frank encouraged improvement of local transportation, including building the Golden Gate Bridge. While ...

  5. Alluvium - Wikipedia

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    Alluvium and adjacent constituents Alluvium deposits in the Gamtoos Valley in South Africa An alluvial plain in Red Rock Canyon State Park (California) Alluvial river deposits in the Amazon basin, near Autazes, AM, Brazil. The seasonal deposits are extremely fertile and crucial to subsistence farming in the Amazon Basin along the river banks.

  6. South Coast hydrologic region - Wikipedia

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    Santa Clara River Valley groundwater basin: 4-4 High Acton Valley groundwater basin: 4-5 8,270 1,000 140 Pleasant Valley groundwater basin: 4-6 Medium 21,600 1,000 Arroyo Santa Rosa Valley groundwater basin: 4-7 Medium 3,740 1,200 950 Las Posas Valley groundwater basin: 4-8 Medium 42,200 750 Simi Valley groundwater basin: 4-9 12,100 394

  7. Diluvium - Wikipedia

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    Buckland defined alluvium as surficial sediments laid down by processes currently active and observable, such as those associated with existing streams and coastal environments. [3] In Germany, diluvium was also known as the Eiszeit or Glazialzeit and alluvium was known as the Postglazialzeit.

  8. Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge is a 11,122-acre (45.01 km 2) wetland wildlife refuge located in Waterford Township in Fulton County, Illinois across the Illinois River from the town of Havana.

  9. Calico Early Man Site - Wikipedia

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    The stone tools of these industries, along with preforms, lithic core, technical flakes, and pieces of angular debitage, mainly of chalcedony, are found on and in late middle Pleistocene-age fanglomerates and younger inset alluvial terraces in the Calico Hills (also known as the Yermo Hills) east of the Calico Peaks and the Calico Mountains.