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| | Region 2 Pacific Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Region 2 includes all onshore Washington, all but the southeast quadrant of Oregon, and California east of the Sierra Nevada and the Peninsular Ranges; it also includes the submerged State offshore lands. |
 | | The geology of this region is varied and complex, the consequence of a geologic history that includes accretion of crustal blocks to the North American cratonic margin, subduction, arc-related volcanism and plutonism, large-scale horizontal translations, block rotations, eruption of flood basalts, and formation of numerous small, deep basins, some of which are prolific oil producers. |
 | | Region 2 had produced about 23.5 billion barrels of oil and 33.7 trillion cubic feet of gas and had reserves of 4.3 billion barrels of oil and 3.9 trillion of cubic feet of gas as of January 1993 (including the Federal offshore). |
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