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California Landforms

What are the major landforms in California?

Mountains

Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries, which erupt and form mountains.

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Mount Diablo

Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California.

Mount Diablo

Sierra Nevada Mountain Range

Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of the United States.

Tahoe Mountain

Mammoth Mountain

Mammoth Mountain is a lava dome complex west of the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, in the Inyo National Forest of Madera and Mono Counties.

Mammoth Mountain

Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California.

Mount Shasta

Deserts

Deserts are formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America. It is in the Southwestern United States, primarily within southeastern California.

Mojave Desert

Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately 7 million acres (28,000 km2), including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.

Colorado Desert

Great Basin Desert

The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe

Great Basin Desert

Coastal Landforms

These landforms are the result of a combination of processes acting upon the sediments and rocks present in the coastal zone. The most prominent of these processes involves waves and the currents that they generate, along with tides.

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Malibu Coast

Malibu is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about 30 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. It is known for its Mediterranean climate and its 21-mile strip of the Malibu coast, incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu.

Malibu

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California. It is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply "the Bay Area"), and is dominated by the large cities of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland.

San Francisco Bay

Newport Beach

Newport Beach is a coastal city in Orange County, California, United States. Newport Beach is known for good surfing and sandy beaches.

Newport

Beach

Valleys

These geological formations are created by running rivers and shifting glaciers. Valleys are depressed areas of land–scoured and washed out by the conspiring forces of gravity, water, and ice.

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Central Valley

The Central Valley is a flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40 to 60 miles (60 to 100 km) wide and stretches approximately 450 miles.

Central Valley

Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California.

Yosemite

Valley

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