Orientations in LA always got me confused. LA actually points mostly south, and the mountains run east-west. I always felt like the ocean should be to the west and the mountains should run north-south. Well, it turns out it was that way 25 million years ago. The mountains around LA to Santa Barbara are called the "Transverse Ranges" because they run east-west, and they were rotated 90 degrees 25 million years ago as the plates slammed together and all sort of chaos happened.
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