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Title: Fossil scallop shells in Santa Monica Mountains
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Fossil scallop shells (pecten) in the Topanga stratum, Miocene epoch, in the Santa Monica Mountains. Seen along the roadway 1 mile east of summit of Saddle Peak at the head of the Las Flores Canyon watershed. Road construction exposes these fossils.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030401
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 110-A
CARL0000032890
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95747
Subject: Animals, Fossil--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Shells--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)

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