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Tar at beach near Carpinteria Asphalt mine, Santa Barbara County, California, 1906.

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1906

Summary

View on beach immediately south of the Carpinteria Asphaltum mine showing the tar sticking to the Miocene shale and boulders, seaweed, etc., cemented to the shale by the tar. Asphaltum deposits in bluff back of beach. October 16, 1906. Santa Barbara County, California. Published in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 321, Plate III-A, p. 28. 1907.

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Arnold, Ralph

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Image located in the U.S.Geological Survey Photographic Collection, Ralph Arnold Collection Album, no.535.

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name photoLibrary arn00535
number photoLibrary 2098
batch photoLibrary btch347
number_in_book photoLibrary 535

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