Temblor Range

Temblor Range
Temblor Mountains in spring; view from near State Route 58 summit
Highest point
Elevation	1,176 m (3,858 ft)
Geography
Temblor Range location of Temblor Range in California[1]
Country	United States
State	California
District	USGS McKittrick Summit
Biome	California interior chaparral and woodlands

The Temblor Range is a mountain range within the

Peaks within the Temblor Range average about 3,500 ft (1,100 m) above sea level.

The Temblor Range and surrounding region contains extensive outcrops of the

During the Pleistocene, sometime more recently than 1.8 million years ago, an enormous block of the Temblor Range – a swath of Monterey shale more than six miles (9.7 km) long, a mile across, and over 2,000 feet (610 m) thick, about three cubic miles of rock in all – slid down the northeastern side of the range, covering a distance of approximately three miles and descending 2,000 feet (610 m). This mass movement completely covered the McKittrick Oil Field, giving it a highly unusual geology for an oil field, as the petroleum deposits in most oil fields are in structural or stratigraphic traps; this field is capped by an enormous mass of rock that moved off of the adjacent mountain range.^[5] The Temblor Range is delineated from the San Emigdio Mountains and the Santa Ynez Mountains by State Route 166 in Maricopa. This is the Temblor Range's southern end. The Temblor Range is delineated from the

The Temblor Recreation Area is less than 3 miles Southwest of Taft, California. Although there are numerous unofficial routes into the area, legal public access is currently limited.

References

• Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas.
  ISBN 0-929591-80-1
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• Media related to Temblor Range at Wikimedia Commons
• USGS.gov: Carrizo Plain National Monument — 3D photographic tour featuring park's geology.