Image / Ancient river bed in the Santa Monica Mountains

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Title: Ancient river bed in the 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: "Peanut-brittle" Topanga formation at the foot of the grade near the spring in Topanga Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains. Road cut along Topanga Canyon Highway shows conglomerate of boulders and sedimentation of an ancient river bed in Eocene time.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030253
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 109
CARL0000032851
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95717
Subject: Formations (Geology)--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Sedimentation and deposition--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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