Anyone who has been to California knows how gorgeous it is -- from the the Sierras and Yosemite to Lake Tahoe to the Mojave Desert, the shimmering San Francisco Bay and the majestic bluffs of Big Sur and the Pacific coast, there's no lack of photo ops in this states. But peel back the layers a bit, and you find a whole new level of beauty -- its geology.
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