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SOUTHERN COAST GEOLOGY ODYSSEY: 101 south to Sunset Bay

Basalt monolith Basks in prodigal sunlight Dreams of bikinis Rigid magma spine Keeps talking ‘bout glory days Not so hot right now Maybe men did this Built a highway in the sand Turns out they didn’t Bipolar vandal Breaking in two times a day Ransacking the bay Elder trees once said It’s time to set down some roots Timing’s everything Broken in upheaval My hidden faults revealed Too sediment-al Defiant posture Land intimidates the sea Look at my mussels! Sediments tilted Up and down are east and west What the hell happened? Multi-lane highways Time crafted for nobody And not meant for cars Rocks dissolve before The universal solvent’s Twice daily licking The sea sets forth its Restless liquid arsenal Per lunar command Millennial war Battered ramparts stand between Order and chaos Floating continents Bump and jostle each other Sometimes get upset Wind and waves persist Earthen fortifications Bow to gravity Bits of history Recorded in sand and stone Lost in the telling A shor...