
The Tiburon Peninsula is a landform of the
San Francisco Bay Area
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's
Marin County
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and is home to the
incorporated municipalities
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of
Tiburon Tiburon (Spanish ''Tiburón'', " shark") may refer to:
Places
;United States
* Tiburon, California
* Tiburón Golf Club Naples, Florida
* Tiburon Peninsula (California), a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California
;Mexico
* Tiburón ...
,
Belvedere Belvedere (from Italian, meaning "beautiful sight") may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Belvedere, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region
Africa
* Belvedere (Casablanca), a neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco
*Belvedere, Harare, Zi ...
, and a portion of
Corte Madera, California
Corte Madera (; Spanish for "Chop Wood") is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. Corte Madera is located south of San Rafael, at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m). The population was 10,222 at the 2020 census. The town was named aft ...
. Much of the peninsula is
unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to:
* Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality
* Unincorporated entity, a type of organization
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, including portions of the north side and the communities of
Paradise Cay and
Strawberry
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.
Richardson Bay
Richardson Bay (originally Richardson's Bay) is a shallow, ecologically rich arm of San Francisco Bay, managed under a Joint Powers Agency of four northern California cities. The Richardson Bay Sanctuary was acquired in the early 1960s by the N ...
separates the peninsula from the Marin County mainland.
Angel Island lies app. 1 mile south of the peninsula's southern tip. Much of the land area of the Tiburon Peninsula was part of a Spanish land grant originally given to the early Californian
John Reed. A prominent feature of the Tiburon Peninsula is
Ring Mountain, Marin County
Ring Mountain is an elevated landform on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California. This mountain was named for George E. Ring, who served as a Marin County Supervisor from 1895 to 1903.
A number of rare and endangered flora inhabit R ...
, which forms the backbone of the peninsula and is the highest elevation of the peninsula. The Tiburon Peninsula is the location of a number of
rare and
endangered
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flora species, and is also the site of ancient
Native American
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* Indigenous peoples in Cana ...
rock carving
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s. The mineral
lawsonite
Lawsonite is a hydrous calcium aluminium sorosilicate mineral with formula CaAl2Si2O7(OH)2·H2O. Lawsonite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system in prismatic, often tabular crystals. Crystal twinning is common. It forms transparent to transluc ...
was first described from an occurrence on the Tiburon Peninsula.
[F Leslie Ransome (1895) ''On Lawsonite, a New Rock-forming Mineral from the Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County, California'', University of California Press]
History
Development
Politics
Education
Schools
Public libraries
See also
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Old Saint Hilary Church
Old St. Hilary's Landmark is a former mission church place of worship and now a historic landmark owned and maintained by the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society, Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County, California, United States. The landmark is situat ...
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Triangle Marsh
Triangle Marsh is a wetland of the San Francisco Bay, situated at the base of Ring Mountain at the north end of the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California.
Archaeological Pecked curvilinear nucleated petroglyphs, and recovery on Ring ...
References
Landforms of Marin County, California
Landforms of the San Francisco Bay Area
Peninsulas of California
Tiburon, California
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