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77 relations: Abronia (plant), Achillea millefolium, Alluvium, Ambrosia chamissonis, Amphibian, Aquatic plant, Baccharis pilularis, Bay, Brandt's cormorant, Bulrush, Burlingame, California, Cakile, California coastal prairie, California least tern, California red-legged frog, California State Route 1, Carpobrotus chilensis, Carpobrotus edulis, Chenopodium album, Cliff, Cooking banana, Diplacus aurantiacus, Discovery (observation), Egret, Endangered species, Environmental impact statement, Equisetum, Erosion, Eschscholzia, Eschscholzia californica, Exploration, Gaspar de Portolá, Golden aster, Greenschist, Habitat, Headlands and bays, Heron, Holocene, Iris douglasiana, Juncus, Landslide, Lime (material), Limestone, Littoral zone, Lupinus albifrons, Mammal, Mine reclamation, Montara, California, Mori Point, Northern coastal scrub, ..., Ocean Shore Railroad, Ohlone, Pacific Ocean, Pacifica, California, Pelagic cormorant, Presidio of San Francisco, Quarry, Red-winged blackbird, Redevelopment, Reptile, Riprap, San Bruno elfin, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco garter snake, Sand martin, Scenic viewpoint, Species, Track ballast, Track bed, United States Geological Survey, Volcano, Wetland, Whitewash, Wildflower, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Expand index (27 more) »
Abronia (plant)
Abronia, the sand-verbenas or wild lantanas, is a genus of about 20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the family Nyctaginaceae.
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Achillea millefolium
Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Ambrosia chamissonis
Ambrosia chamissonis is a species of ragweed known by the common names silver burr ragweed, silver beachweed and (silver) beach bur(r).
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).
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Baccharis pilularis
Baccharis pilularis, called coyote brush (or bush), chaparral broom, and bush baccharis, is a shrub in the daisy family native to California, Oregon, Washington, and Baja California.
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Bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.
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Brandt's cormorant
The Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America.
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Bulrush
Bulrushes is the vernacular name, there are other local variants.
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Burlingame, California
Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California.
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Cakile
Cakile is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae.
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California coastal prairie
California coastal prairie, also known as northern coastal grassland, is a grassland plant community of California and Oregon in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
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California least tern
The California least tern, Sternula antillarum browni, is a subspecies of least tern that breeds primarily in bays of the Pacific Ocean within a very limited range of Southern California, in San Francisco Bay and in northern regions of Mexico.
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California red-legged frog
The California red legged frog (Rana draytonii) is a species of frog that is now endemic to California.
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California State Route 1
State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.
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Carpobrotus chilensis
Carpobrotus chilensis is a species of succulent plant known by the common name sea fig.
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Carpobrotus edulis
Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa.
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Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium.
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Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure.
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Cooking banana
Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.
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Diplacus aurantiacus
Diplacus aurantiacus, the sticky monkey-flower or orange bush monkey-flower, is a flowering plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to southwestern North America from southwestern Oregon south through most of California.
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Discovery (observation)
Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unrecognized as meaningful.
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Egret
An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Environmental impact statement
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".
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Equisetum
Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Eschscholzia
Eschscholzia is a genus of 12 annual or perennial plants in the Papaveraceae (poppy) family.
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Eschscholzia californica
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight, cup of gold) is a species of flowering plant in the Papaveraceae family, native to the United States and Mexico.
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Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.
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Gaspar de Portolá
Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (1716–1786) was a Spanish soldier and administrator in New Spain.
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Golden aster
Golden aster or goldenaster is a common name for several plants with yellow flowers in the aster family and may refer to.
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Greenschist
Greenschists are metamorphic rocks that formed under the lowest temperatures and pressures usually produced by regional metamorphism, typically and 2–10 kilobars.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Headlands and bays
Headlands and bays are two related coastal features.
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Heron
The herons are the long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Iris douglasiana
Iris douglasiana (Douglas iris) is a common wildflower of the coastal regions of Northern and Central California and southern Oregon in the United States.
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Juncus
Juncus is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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Lime (material)
Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Littoral zone
The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore.
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Lupinus albifrons
Lupinus albifrons, silver lupine, white-leaf bush lupine, or evergreen lupine, is a species of lupine (lupin).
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mine reclamation
Mine reclamation is the process of restoring land that has been mined to a natural or economically usable state.
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Montara, California
Montara is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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Mori Point
Mori Point is a park located in Pacifica, California that is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).
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Northern coastal scrub
Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon.
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Ocean Shore Railroad
The Ocean Shore Railroad was a railroad built between San Francisco and Tunitas Glen, and Swanton and Santa Cruz that operated along the Pacific coastline from 1905 until 1920.
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Ohlone
The Ohlone, named Costanoan by early Spanish colonists (the Spanish word costa means "coast"), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pacifica, California
Pacifica is a city in San Mateo County, California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay.
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Pelagic cormorant
The pelagic cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus), also known as Baird's cormorant, is a small member of the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae.
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Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army military fort on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
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Quarry
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.
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Red-winged blackbird
The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America.
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Redevelopment
Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Riprap
Riprap, also known as rip rap, rip-rap, shot rock, rock armor or rubble, is rock or other material used to armor shorelines, streambeds, bridge abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against scour and water or ice erosion.
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San Bruno elfin
The San Bruno elfin (Callophrys mossii bayensis) is a U.S. federally listed endangered subspecies that inhabits rocky outcrops and cliffs in coastal scrub on the San Francisco Peninsula.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.
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San Francisco garter snake
The San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is a slender multi-colored subspecies of the common garter snake.
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Sand martin
The sand martin (Riparia riparia) or European sand martin, bank swallow in the Americas, and collared sand martin in the Indian Subcontinent, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.
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Scenic viewpoint
A scenic viewpoint – also called an observation point, viewpoint, viewing point, vista point, lookout, scenic overlook,These terms are more commonly used in North America.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Track ballast
Track ballast forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (sleepers) are laid.
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Track bed
The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wetland
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
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Whitewash
Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, or lime paint is a low-cost type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) and chalk (calcium carbonate, (CaCO3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are also used.
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Wildflower
A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockaway_Beach,_Pacifica,_California
