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Point Reyes National Seashore

Elephant Seal Overlook on Drake's Bay, with cliffs of dipping marine siltstone, sandstone, and mudstone of the Purisima Formation (upper Miocene to lower Pleistocene). Elephant seals rest on the beach amid boulders and driftwood in the foreground.

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