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Acknowledgements:

Tanya Atwater, Ph.D.
Thomas Wilson Dibblee, Jr.
Dibblee Geological Foundation
Earth Science Department, Santa Barbara City College
Helmut E. Ehrenspeck
Bruce Tiffney, Ph.D.
Photos Courtesy of Tom Stone and Melissa Kelly