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Drakes Bay Formation
Stratigraphic range: Neogene
TypeFormation
Location
RegionCalifornia
CountryUnited States

The Drakes Bay Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period.

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Seashore. The cape protects Drakes Bay on its southern side. The headland is largely drained by Drakes Estero. Drakes Bay and Drake's Estero are named after...

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likely N. de Morena who was left at New Albion at Drakes Bay in Marin County, California, by Sir Francis Drake in 1579 and then walked to Mexico. The first...

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north of the Bay Area, in the Lost Coast. The expedition followed the coast southward and on November 7 the San Agustin anchored in Drakes Bay, and claimed...

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the Georgian Bay Formation in Southern Ontario, the Carlsbad Formation near Ottawa, and the Oswego Formation in New York. The formation is composed primarily...

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On 30 May, Drake reached the port of Cascais and anchored his fleet between its citadel and that of São Julião in a crescent formation as close to the...

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Following the formation of the Dominion Coal Company in 1893, the coal mining industry expanded significantly in what was to become Glace Bay with the opening...

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families, the Drakes, sold their leases and business. In 2023, the last oyster farm in the estuary, Robert Hill, who took over from the Drakes. was forced...

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The drakes have a complex courtship, which takes place on the return migration to the summer breeding grounds and concludes with the formation of monogamous...

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(240 mi) south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history....

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their bows and formed a tight defensive formation in the shallows around the carrack. As the English entered the bay, without hesitation they fired with everything...

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Portuguese explorer António de Saldanha reaches Table Bay and explores Table Mountain. At Table Bay, the Khoikhoi come to blows with the Portuguese. Portuguese...

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centuries after Drake first recorded their existence, their rather ominous appearance, lying just off the entrance to San Francisco Bay, most likely caused...

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