Golden Gate Geology, California
N 37° 49.614 W 122° 29.953
10S E 544070 N 4186727
This informative sign was placed by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area organization, on Hawk Hill, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Waymark Code: WMAVF5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2011
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The text on the sign reads:
"Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Golden Gate Geology
Deep sea rock high in the headlands
The headlands on both sides of the Golden Gate are composed of ancient oceanic rock pushed to the earth's surface--chert, serpentinite, basalt, and graywacke sandstone. Especially hard and weather-resistant, chert forms the ridgelines.
The rocks you are standing on once resided on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sedimentary rock consists largely of the skeletal remains of minute marine organisms, radiolaria, deposited layer upon layer on the seafloor over the course of millions of years. Scientists believe the radiolarian chert, as the rock is known, and the entire headlands complex, was forced to its present position over millions of years by a collision of the continental and Pacific plates.
Since chert is mostly composed of radiolaria fossils, its layers tell us the origin of these rocks. It takes about 20,000 years for one inch of chert to develop. The radiolaria in these rocks are tropical species from the equatorial Pacific which lived millions of years ago."
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