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| Potrero Garcia and Potrero La Mula: Potrero Garcia and Potrero La Mula are breached salt-cored folds immediately north of the Sierra and Monterey. Individual limestone layers can be resolved in this beautifully detailed view, as can the tilt of the layers outward from the center of the fold (anticline). Most of the salt has been eroded from the core of the structure, but what remains is now being mined. In Las Grutas de Garcia (Garcia Caverns) the limestone bedrock has been dissolved and both limestone and gypsum formations decorate the cave. |
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