Group walking on the Eagle Springs Fire Road. The dark brown color of the road indicates that it has been cut through lower Miocene igneous rocks, either intrusive diabase or extrusive basalt. In this instance it is nonresistant diabase that was intruded into the overlying older rocks like the resistant sandstone exposures of the Topanga Canyon Formation in the background.
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