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Ring Mountain (California)

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Natural history of CaliforniaPetroglyphs in California
Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve
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Ring Mountain is an elevated landform on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California. This mountain was named for George E. Ring, who served as a Marin County Supervisor from 1895 to 1903.A number of rare and endangered flora inhabit Ring Mountain. The mountain's twin summits consist of serpentinite, a rock which is very high in magnesium, producing soils of unusual chemistry (serpentine soil). The landscape is strewn with many sizable boulders which exhibit a variety of lithologies including high-pressure metamorphic rocks of amphibolite, blueschist, greenschist, and eclogite grade.Native American pecked curvilinear nucleated petroglyphs created by the Coast Miwok people are also found here.

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N 37.909691528 ° E -122.485779814 °
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94920
California, United States
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