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Research about Santa Lucia Range

Source-linked reports with geographic coverage including Santa Lucia Range.

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USGS2020

Locality note for rubber boa

CHARINA BOTTAE BOTTAE (N. Rubber Boa), USA: CALIFORNIA: Monterey Co.: Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, east side of Hwy. 1, 80 km (50 miles) south of Carmel, Calif., (36.0719055 N 121.5991555 W) 19 June, 2009; (36.0703611 N 121.5982222 W) 06 July 2009; (36.9516666 N 121.5991944 W) 27 July 2009. In chronological order, photo vouchers MVZObs:Herp:26, MVZObs:Herp:27, MVZObs:Herp:28. Verified by Mitchell Mulks, formerly of 84 Redondo Ave. Suisun City, Calif., Michelle Koo, Staff Curator, Biodiversity Informatics & GIS and Researcher, MVZ, U.C., Berkeley, Calif. New southern extension of the species in the Santa Lucia Range of Monterey Co. approximately 48 km. (30 miles) south of previous range extension south of Carmel in Bixby Canyon (Burger, L.W., Herpetologica, Vol. 8. Part 1. March 22, 1952), and approximately 4 km. (2.5 miles) south of MVZ #229876 found 20 miles north of Nacimiento Road, at approximate coordinates of 36.10033 N 121.62026 W.

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USGS1976

Prehnite in plutonic and metamorphic rocks of the northern Santa Lucia Range, Salinian block, California

Prehnite is abundant as monomineralic veins, as lenses in biotite, and as discrete patches and apparent primary crystals in both plutonic and metamorphic rocks along the west edge of the Salinian block in the northern Santa Lucia Range. The prehnite appears to be concentrated near the Sur fault zone but is very rare in Franciscan rocks west of the fault zone. The prehnite does not appear to have been derived by local alteration of minerals in the country rocks (either plutonic or metamorphic). I suggest that solutions, derived from a "substratum" (possibly Franciscan graywacke) beneath the tectonically thinned west margin of the Salinian block, migrated through the fractured rocks of the Salinian block near the Sur fault zone and that the chemical and physical nature of these rocks favored selective prehnite deposition.

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