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Santa Barbara Canyon deposit (Santa Barbara Creek), Santa Barbara Canyon, Ventucopa, Cuyama Roadless Area Review & Evaluation Area (RARE II), San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USAi
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Santa Barbara Canyon deposit (Santa Barbara Creek)Deposit
Santa Barbara CanyonCanyon
VentucopaVillage
Cuyama Roadless Area Review & Evaluation Area (RARE II)Area
San Rafael MountainsMountain Range
Santa Barbara CountyCounty
CaliforniaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 48' 47'' North , 119° 31' 49'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
34.81306,-119.53028
GeoHash:
G#: 9q5n0188w
GRN:
N24W70
Type:
Deposit
Köppen climate type:
Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
New Cuyama517 (2011)20.5km
Maricopa1,192 (2017)29.8km
Pine Mountain Club2,315 (2017)34.9km
Taft Heights1,949 (2011)36.1km
South Taft2,169 (2011)36.4km
Mindat Locality ID:
92158
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:92158:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A gypsum occurrence/prospect located 5.9 km (3.7 miles) WSW of Ventucopa.

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References

Crawford, James John (1894), Twelfth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. Report 12: 325.
Hess, Frank L. (1910), A reconnaissance of the gypsum deposits of California, with a note on errors I the chemical analysis of gypsum by George Steiger: USGS Bulletin 413, 37 pp.: 28.
Hess, Frank L. (1920), Gypsum deposits of California, in Stone, R.W., Gypsum deposits of the United States: USGS Bulletin 697: 84
Ver Planck, Wm. E., Jr. (1952), Gypsum in California: California Division Mines Bulletin 163: 41
U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report MLA 9-81 (1981), Table 1, No. 1, p. 9.
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