Marin Headlands is a hilly peninsula at the southernmost end of Marin County, California, United States, located just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, which connects the two counties and peninsulas.
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10 Facts About Marin Headlands
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The Marin Headlands are famous for their views of the Bay Area, especially of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Centerpoint of the Marin Headlands skyline is the 920-foot Hawk Hill, the lookout point for the largest known flight of diurnal raptors in the Pacific states.
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Marin Headlands are home to black tail deer, mountain lions, bobcats, two types of fox, coyotes, wild turkeys, hares, rabbits, raccoons, and skunks.
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Marin Headlands are underlain by geological formations created by the accretion of oceanic sediments from the Pacific Plate onto the North American Plate.
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The primary rock types of the Marin Headlands include graywacke sandstone, radiolarian chert, serpentinite, pillow basalts, and shale.
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Marin Headlands is one of the featured field trips found in the Streetcar 2 Subduction online field trip guide series released in December 2019 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Marin Headlands is the site of a number of historic military settlements fortifications, including Fort Cronkhite, Fort Barry, a large number of bunkers and batteries, and the SF-88 Nike Missile silo.
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All military sites in the Marin Headlands are now decommissioned and returned to civilian use.
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Where Conzelman Road runs along the southern shore of the Marin Headlands and becomes one-way, a pedestrian path leads upwards to Hawk Hill.
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