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The Bridge Across 1000 Miles

February 26, 2008  :  Earth Windows   :  Views 490  :  Add your Comment   

Our car’s odometer clicks off less than two miles as we drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. But geologically, we’ve traveled more than 500 times that distance.

The land that is now Marin County spent millions of years as part of the Pacific Ocean basin, before drifting more than 1,000 miles to its present location across […]