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San Bruno Mountain is a fault-block horst in northern San Mateo County, California; its northern slopes rise in San Francisco.^[1]

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Arabis blepharophylla

Arabis blepharophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, known by the common names coast rock cress and rose rock cress.

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Arctostaphylos imbricata

Arctostaphylos imbricata is a species of manzanita known by the common name San Bruno Mountain manzanita.

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Arctostaphylos montaraensis, known by the common name Montara manzanita, is a species of manzanita in the family Ericaceae. San Bruno Mountain and Arctostaphylos montaraensis are Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Arctostaphylos pacifica

Arctostaphylos pacifica, the Pacific manzanita, is a threatened species of manzanita endemic to San Bruno Mountain described by James B. Roof in 1962.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Brisbane, California

Brisbane (pron.) is a small city in San Mateo County, California, located on the lower slopes of the San Bruno Mountain.

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Bruno de Heceta

Bruno de Heceta (Hezeta) y Dudagoitia (1743–1807) was a Spanish Basque explorer of the Pacific Northwest.

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Burlingame, California

Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Butterfield Overland Mail

Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California coastal prairie

California coastal prairie, also known as northern coastal grassland, is a grassland plant community of California and Oregon in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.

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California Geological Survey

The California Geological Survey, previously known as the California Division of Mines and Geology, is the California state geologic agency.

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Callippe silverspot butterfly

The callippe silverspot butterfly (Speyeria callippe callippe) is a federal endangered subspecies in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Charles Crocker

Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Clear Lake (California)

Clear Lake (Pomo: Lypoyomi) is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco.

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Climate

Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.

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Colma Creek

Colma Creek is a small creek that flows to the San Francisco Bay from its source in the Crocker Hills portion of San Bruno Mountain State and County Park, north of San Mateo County's Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, with contribution from April Brook on San Bruno Mountain proper, south of the Parkway.

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Colma, California

Colma (Ohlone for "Springs") is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cow Palace

The Cow Palace (originally the California State Livestock Pavilion) is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cut and fill

In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments to minimize the amount of construction labor.

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Daly City, California

Daly City is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Detritus (geology)

Detritus (adj. detrital) is particles of rock derived from pre-existing rock through weathering and erosion.

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East Bay Times

The East Bay Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ecological restoration

Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

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Elizabeth McClintock

Elizabeth May McClintock (7 July 1912 – 19 October 2004) was a botanist who was born in San Jacinto, California, United States, and grew up near the San Jacinto Mountains.

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Emporis

Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Erysimum franciscanum

Erysimum franciscanum, commonly known as the Franciscan wallflower or San Francisco wallflower, is a plant endemic to the northern California coast, from Sonoma to Santa Cruz Counties.

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Fault block

Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Fernando Rivera y Moncada

Fernando Javier Rivera y Moncada (c. 1725 – July 18, 1781) was a soldier of the Spanish Empire who served in The Californias (Las Californias), the far north-western frontier of New Spain.

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Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

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Fort Funston

Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Franciscan Complex

The Franciscan Complex or Franciscan Assemblage is a geologic term for a late Mesozoic terrane of heterogeneous rocks found throughout the California Coast Ranges, and particularly on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Francisco Palóu

Francisco Palóu (Francesc Palou in catalan), OFM (1723–1789) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary, administrator and historian on the Baja California Peninsula and in Alta California.

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Golden Gate

The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

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Greywacke

Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

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Guadalupe Valley Creek

Guadalupe Creek or Guadalupe Valley Creek is a short eastward-flowing stream whose watershed originates just east of the highest peak of San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Habitat Conservation Plan

A Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is a required part of an application for an Incidental Take Permit, a permit issued under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) to private entities undertaking projects that might result in the destruction of an endangered or threatened species.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Hills of Eternity Memorial Park

Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, also known as Giboth Olam, is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1889, and is located at 1301 El Camino Real, in Colma, California.

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Hokan languages

The Hokan language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken mainly in California, Arizona, and Baja California.

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Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)

Holy Cross Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Santa Cruz) is a Catholic cemetery in Colma, California, operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Home of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California)

Home of Peace Cemetery, also known as Navai Shalome, is a Jewish cemetery established in 1889, and is located at 1299 El Camino Real in Colma, California.

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Horst (geology)

In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.

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Islais Creek

Islais Creek or Islais Creek Channel (previously known as Du Vrees Creek, Islais Channel and Islais Swamp) is a small creek in San Francisco, California.

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Jacob P. Leese

Jacob Primer Leese (August 19, 1809 – February 1, 1892), known in Spanish as Don Jacobo Leese, was an Ohio-born Californian ranchero, entrepreneur, and public servant.

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José Francisco Ortega

José Francisco Ortega (1734 – February 1798) was a New Spanish soldier and early settler of Alta California.

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Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire.

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Juana Briones de Miranda

Juana Briones de Miranda (c. 1802 – 1889) was a Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, and merchant, often remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco", for her noted involvement in the early development of the city of San Francisco (then known as Yerba Buena).

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KDTV-DT

KDTV-DT (channel 14) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the Spanish-language Univision network outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KIOI

KIOI (101.3 FM, "Star 101.3") is a hot AC-formatted radio station licensed to San Francisco, California and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The radio studios and offices are in the SoMa district of San Francisco.

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KITS

KITS (105.3 FM, "Live 105") is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California.

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KKPX-TV

KKPX-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KMEL

KMEL (106.1 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station that is licensed to San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KMVQ-FM

KMVQ-FM (99.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California.

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KNTV

KNTV (channel 11), branded NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KOFY-TV

KOFY-TV (channel 20) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of Merit Street Media.

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KOSF

KOSF (103.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California.

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KPJK

KPJK (channel 60) is a non-commercial independent television station licensed to San Mateo, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KQED (TV)

KQED (channel 9) is a PBS member television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KQED-FM

KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial public radio station in San Francisco, California.

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KRON-TV

KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's outlet for The CW.

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KSAN (FM)

KSAN (107.7 MHz, "107.7 The Bone") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to San Mateo, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KTSF

KTSF (channel 26) is an independent television station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting in a variety of languages, most notably Chinese.

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KTVU

KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox network outlet.

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Lessingia germanorum

Lessingia germanorum is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name San Francisco lessingia.

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List of California state parks

This is a list of parks, historic resources, reserves and recreation areas in the California State Parks system.

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List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area

This is a list of named summits in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area that are more than above sea level. San Bruno Mountain and list of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area are mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area

These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into.

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Little Boxes

"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Malvina Reynolds

Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her songwriting, particularly the songs "Little Boxes", "What Have They Done to the Rain" and "Morningtown Ride".

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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio general, statesman, and public figure.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Midden

A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.

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Milagra Ridge

Milagra Ridge is a open space park that is an isolated island ecosystem, located about south of San Francisco, between the cities of Pacifica and Daly City.

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MIM-3 Nike Ajax

The Nike Ajax was an American guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed by Bell Labs for the United States Army.

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Mission blue butterfly

The Mission blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis) is a blue or lycaenid butterfly subspecies native to the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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Mission blue butterfly habitat conservation

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has a number of programs aimed at Mission blue butterfly habitat conservation, which include lands traditionally inhabited by the Mission blue butterfly, an endangered species.

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Montara Mountain

Montara Mountain, positioned between the unincorporated community of Montara, California, to the southwest and the city of Pacifica, California, to the north, forms the northern spur of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a narrow mountain range running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. San Bruno Mountain and Montara Mountain are mountains of Northern California, mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Mount Allison

Mount Allison is a peak of the Diablo Range, located in the East Bay southeast of Fremont, California. San Bruno Mountain and Mount Allison are mountains of Northern California and mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Niebla halei

Niebla halei is a fruticose lichen that grows on rocks along the foggy Pacific Coast of northern California on San Bruno MountainSpjut, R. W. 1996.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Northern California coastal forests

The Northern California coastal forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of coastal Northern California and southwestern Oregon.

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Northern coastal scrub

Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon.

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Ohlone

The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish costeño meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific Plate

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Portolá expedition

Point of San Francisco Bay Discovery The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.

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Radiolaria

The Radiolaria, also called Radiozoa, are protozoa of diameter 0.1–0.2 mm that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm.

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Ramaytush

The Ramaytush or Rammay-tuš people are a linguistic subdivision of the Ohlone people of Northern California.

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Rancho Buri Buri

Rancho Buri Buri (also called Sánchez Rancho) was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Antonio Sánchez.

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Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitación y Rodeo Viejo

Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitación y Rodeo Viejo (also called Ridley's Rancho) was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, and San Francisco County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Jacob P. Leese.

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Rancho Laguna de la Merced

Rancho Laguna de la Merced (also known as the Galindo ranch) was a Mexican land grant, in present-day southwestern San Francisco and northwestern San Mateo County, California.

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Rancho Rincon de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo

Rancho Rincón de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo was a Mexican land grant, largely within present day southeastern San Francisco, California, and extending to San Mateo County, California.

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Rancho San Miguel (Noé)

Rancho San Miguel was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Francisco County, California.

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Ranchos of California

The Spanish and Mexican governments made many concessions and land grants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Ridge

A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides.

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Salt pan (geology)

Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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San Andreas Lake

San Andreas Lake is a reservoir adjacent to the San Francisco Peninsula cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in San Mateo County, California.

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San Bruno elfin

The San Bruno elfin (Callophrys mossii bayensis) is a U.S. federally listed endangered subspecies that inhabits rocky outcrops and cliffs in coastal scrub on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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San Bruno Mountain Ecological Reserve

The San Bruno Mountain Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of on the north slope of San Bruno Mountain, south of San Francisco, California, adjacent to the San Bruno Mountain State Park.

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San Bruno Mountain State Park

San Bruno Mountain State Park, officially San Bruno Mountain State and County Park, is a park located in northern San Mateo County, California. San Bruno Mountain and San Bruno Mountain State Park are Santa Cruz Mountains.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco and San Jose Railroad

The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ) was a railroad which linked the communities of San Francisco and San Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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San Francisco garter snake

The San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is a slender multi-colored subspecies of the common garter snake.

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San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County, officially the County of San Mateo, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Santa Cruz Mountains

The Santa Cruz Mountains (Mutsun Ohlone: Mak-sah-re-jah, "Sharp Ridged Mountain of the Eagle" or "People of the Eagle Mountain") are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States, constituting a part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.

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Save the Bay

Save The Bay is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving San Francisco Bay and related estuarine habitat areas.

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Serpentine subgroup

Serpentine subgroup (part of the kaolinite-serpentine group in the category of phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite.

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Sierra Point (Brisbane)

Sierra Point is a small artificial peninsula that extends eastward into the San Francisco Bay from the eastern shore of the San Francisco Peninsula, located in Brisbane, San Mateo County, California (although the south part of the business park extends into South San Francisco).

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Silene verecunda

Silene verecunda is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name San Francisco campion.

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South San Francisco hillside sign

The South San Francisco Hillside Sign is a historic sign on a hillside overlooking the city of South San Francisco in San Mateo County, California.

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South San Francisco, California

South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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Sutro Tower

Sutro Tower is a unique three-legged tall TV and radio lattice tower located in San Francisco, California.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Trust for Public Land

The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come".

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United Airlines Flight 863

On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_Mountain

Also known as San Bruno Mountains.

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San Bruno Mountain, the Glossary

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