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I could see rounded cobbles of a previous lava flow that had been completely eroded away, located beneath the layers of volcanics that you see in the picture.
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I could see rounded cobbles of a previous lava flow that had been completely eroded away, located beneath the layers of volcanics that you see in the picture.
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This subsection consists mostly of folded, faulted, and generally metamorphosed sediments and volcanics of the Franciscan Complex and less extensive Cretaceous sediments of the Great Valley Sequence.
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The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d.
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Cryic soils developed on the mixed geology of mostly Tertiary volcanics and Tertiary intrusives, with only minor areas of Precambrian rocks in the Black Range.
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Streams draining the quartzite-dominated Uinta Mountains and portions of the Wasatch Front that are underlain by acidic intrusive volcanics tend to be non-alkaline, low in nutrients, and low in total dissolved solids.
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This mountainous ecoregion is underlain by Cenozoic volcanics and has been affected by alpine glaciations.
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Volcanism in the Pliocene epoch overtopped the existing Miocene volcanics of Ecoregion 4b.
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It is underlain by sedimentary and metamorphic rock in contrast to the adjoining Cascades which are composed of volcanics.
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The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d.
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