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USGS.gov: "Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Rocks Berkeley and San Leandro Hills, California"
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Geology.about.com: "California Transect - Stop 30, Orinda Formation and Moraga Volcanics"
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab.gov: "Berkeley Lab Geologist Studies the Ground Beneath His Feet"
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area of the Berkeley Hills. It is named for an exposed occurrence in the
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
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Oakland Geology Blog: "Grizzly Peak and Moraga basalt"
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Pliocene epoch

Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
Berkeley Hills
Geologic formation
Great Valley Group
Orinda Formation
Basaltic lava
andesite
basalt
rhyolite tuff
Clay
conglomerate
limestone
Berkeley Hills
Alameda County
Contra Costa County
California
United States
Moraga Valley
geological formation
Pliocene epoch
Berkeley Hills
East Bay Region
San Francisco Bay Area
California
basaltic lava
Alameda County
Contra Costa County

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