kelp bass or calico bass<\/a>, and what I guess to have been several kinds of smelt.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curiously, it seems that the Santa Catalina Island land-mass was never directly connected, geologically speaking, to mainland California. \u00a0It surprised me a bit to learn that. \u00a0The two distinct rock units of which it is composed \u2014 Catalina schist\u00a0dating to the Early\u00a0Cretaceous Period\u00a0(that is, to 95 to 109 million years ago), and much more recent\u00a0Miocene\u00a0volcanic\u00a0and intrusive\u00a0igneous rocks (dating to somewhere between 23 and 5 million years before the present) \u2014 originally occurred on the ocean floor and emerged from the ocean through tectonic activity.<\/p>\n
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The Channel Islands as a group (including those in the Santa Barbara Channel, to the north of Santa Catalina and its two neighbors, San Clemente and San Nicolas) were all heavily influenced if not altogether formed by volcanic activity approximately 14 million years ago, and they moved to their present location and took their current form by reason of plate tectonics. Rising and lowering sea levels have also, obviously, had their effect. \u00a0Although it was believed for a long time that the four northern Channel Islands \u2014 East, Middle, and West Anacapa (which are treated as a unit), Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel \u2014 were likely once connected to the mainland, that idea is now commonly rejected.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Newport Beach, California<\/p>\n
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