Latitude: 37°51'46"N
Longitude: 122°25'51"W
An island off the southern coast of Marin County in San Francisco Bay. The island is entirely within the state park; however, a thin sliver on its eastern end is in San Francisco County to the south. The island was home to a federal government immigration station (west coast equivalent of the much more famous Ellis Island, New York). It is the island about 2 miles N of Alcatraz Island where three possibly successful escapees from the federal prison on Alcatraz made it to land.
References
Ransome, Frederick Leslie (1894), The geology of Angel Island, California: University of California, Department of Geol. Sci. Bulletin: 1: 206.
Bloxam, T.W. (1960), Jadeite rocks and glaucophane schists from Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California: American Journal of Science: 258: 558-560.
Coleman, R.G. (1965), Composition of jadeite pyroxene from the California graywackes: USGS PP 525-C: 25, 26-27.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 69.
Coleman, R.G. & J.R. Clark (1968), Pyroxenes in the blueschist facies of California: American Journal of Science: 266: 44.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 390, 403, 487.
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