Guijarral Hills

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Guijarral Hills
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Guijarral Hills
Location of Guijarral Hills in California [1]
Highest point
Elevation 192 m (630 ft)
Geography
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
District Fresno County
Range coordinates 36°8′40.835″N120°13′15.514″W / 36.14467639°N 120.22097611°W / 36.14467639; -120.22097611
Topo map USGS  Guijarral Hills

The Guijarral Hills are a range of low hills in the inner California Coast Ranges, in Fresno County, California, about seven miles east of the town of Coalinga. [1] Guijarral is derived from a Spanish word meaning "heap of pebbles". [2]

They are the surface expression of an anticlinal structure which continues to the south as the Kettleman Hills, and to the north as Anticline Ridge, a portion of the huge Coalinga Oil Field. The Guijarral Hills overlie the smaller and mostly exhausted Guijarral Hills Oil Field. Jayne Avenue, which connects Interstate 5 to Coalinga, is the major east–west road through the hills.

References

  1. 1 2 "Guijarral Hills". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  2. ↑ Schrader, Frank Charles (1909). Mineral Deposits of the Cerbat Range, Black Mountains, and Grand Wash Cliffs, Mohave County, Arizona. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.  23.


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