{"id":714,"date":"2015-02-22T23:12:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/nt2020\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:42:49","slug":"natural-history-of-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/nature-411\/natural-history\/natural-history-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of years ago North America&#8217;s west coast was what is today&#8217;s Mogollon Rim in Arizona and what California is today was a wild assemblage of island arcs, marine sediment and stuff volcanoes make. This presentation focuses on the tectonics and other evolutionary marvels that resulted in the California we experience today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1260\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yosemite-Aug-4639-100dpi-6X8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1260\" src=\"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yosemite-Aug-4639-100dpi-6X8.jpg\" alt=\"Geological forces worked wonders creating waht is today knowan as Yosemite\" width=\"880\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yosemite-Aug-4639-100dpi-6X8.jpg 880w, http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yosemite-Aug-4639-100dpi-6X8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geological forces worked wonders creating what is today known as Yosemite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of years ago North America&#8217;s west coast was what is today&#8217;s Mogollon Rim in Arizona and what California is today was a wild assemblage of island arcs, marine sediment and stuff volcanoes make. This presentation focuses on the tectonics and other evolutionary marvels that resulted in the California we experience today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":708,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions\/1907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturetrip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}