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  1. Franciscan pillow basalts crop out at the mouth of the Big Sur River in Andrew Molera State Park. The pillow basalts represent lavas erupted underwater, probably at a mid-ocean ridge or other deep-sea setting, that were scraped up onto the continent at a convergent margin. Nearby radiolarian chert indicates the deep-se...

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  2. Cliffs of Franciscan melange in Marin Headlands State Park just north of San Francisco. These jumbled rocks formed when a subduction zone was along the California coast in the Jurassic through Cretaceous.

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  3. Known as the 'White Dove of the Desert', this Southwest Jesuit mission was founded in 1692 as part of New Spain, it was transferred to the Franciscan missionaries around 1768 and shortly thereafter it was destroyed by Indians. Located 9 miles South of Tucson, the current church was rebuilt in 1793 and is the oldest in...

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