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Golden Gate National Recreational Area
Cookie Tectonics
Cookie tectonic demonstration
Ranger Roxi demonstrates Cookie Tectonics to teacher candidates.

Cookie Tectonics uses a sandwich cookie to offer a fun and easy way to model the geologic assembling of the Franciscan Complex rocks, during the subduction and accretion of the ancient Farallon Plate.

 

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Serpentinite with asbestos veins  

Did You Know?
Nearly half of the serpentinite found in North America is located in California, making it a natural choice for the state rock.

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