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A

  • Acila Zone
  • aerial photo
  • Amnicola Zone
  • archival ink
  • arthropod
  • assemblage

B

  • barnacle
  • beach
  • bedrock
  • biodiversity
  • bioerosion
  • bivalve
  • block diagram
  • bryozoan

C

  • clam
  • climatology
  • coast
  • coral
  • cross section
  • crosscut
  • current

D

  • deposition

E

  • echinoderm
  • echinoid
  • erosion
  • Etchegoin Formation
  • evidence
  • evolution
  • extinction

F

  • fault
  • faunal succession
  • folding
  • formation
  • fossil
  • fossil fuels

G

  • gastropod
  • geologic time
  • geological
  • geologist
  • geology
  • gigapixel
  • GPS coordinates
  • gravel

H

  • habitat
  • habitat loss
  • hydrological
  • hydrology
  • hypothesis

I

  • invertebrate
  • isopod

J

  • jointed

L

  • laminations
  • landscape
  • layers
  • lithospheric plates

M

  • Macoma Zone
  • marine
  • mussel

N

  • natural gas

O

  • oil
  • organism
  • original horizontality
  • outcrop

P

  • paleontologist
  • paleontology
  • Patinopecten Zone
  • Pecten Zone
  • plate tectonics
  • polyp
  • Pseudocardium Zone
  • Purisima Formation

S

  • San Joaquin Formation
  • sand
  • sand dollar
  • sandstone
  • scallop
  • sediment
  • sedimentary rock
  • segment
  • Siphonalia Zone
  • Story Map
  • stratigraphy
  • submarine fan
  • superposition
  • symmetry
  • synapsid

T

  • tectonics
  • topographic map
  • trace fossil
  • trilobite
  • Tulare Formation

U

  • uplift

V

  • vertebrate
  • vertical exaggeration

W

  • weathering

Z

  • zone

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