Mendocino
Americannoun
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To confirm this idea, the team used radiocarbon dating on this core and others collected near Cape Mendocino, where the two fault systems meet.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
Those roles sometimes conflict — as they did at Lake Mendocino, which dried to a mud puddle during the 2012–16 drought.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
About 10 minutes after surfer Tommy Civik entered the water in Mendocino County, he was slammed by a force from below so hard that it was “like getting hit by a car.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026
I’ve had good Chenins from Mendocino and Sonoma in California, not to mention Oregon, Washington and New York state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
“Thank the gods you’re awake! We’re in Mendocino, about a hundred and fifty miles north of the Golden Gate.”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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