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During the
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in an intermediate to deep-water marine setting). Fossils and sediments from the
Monterey Formation show that the Carrizo Plain region was a marine basin with shallow to intermediate depths (marine waters covered the southern
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northeastern side of the range, covering a distance of approximately three miles and descending 2,000 feet (610 m). This mass movement completely covered the
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contains marine fossils to about 4 million years old. Fossils of the
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runs parallel to the range at the base of its western slope, on the eastern side of the
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age, about 20 to 9 million years). Rocks from the
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