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Title: Santa Monica Mountains fossils
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Hoyt, Vance
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Fossils of scallop shells (Pecten) in the Topanga formation (Miocene epoch) seen along the roadway one mile east of the summit of Saddle Peak at the head of the Los Flores Canyon watershed in the Santa Monica Mountains on January 21, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065470
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 111 4x5
CARL0000070118
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2925
Subject: Mountains--California, Southern
Geology--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Fossils--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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