Streak is white. Other Characteristics: Nearly all specimens fluoresce blue under UV light. Associated Minerals include serpentine, neptunite, natrolite, joaquinite, sanbornite, taramellite, albite and fresnoite. Notable Occurrences include only the mines of San Benito County, California, USA for good excellent crystals.
Elevation- Los Angeles 300 feet. Elevation- San Francisco 60 feet. Based on these numbers alone, you'll be going downhill from Los Angeles to San Francisco as you travel North on Hwy 1 (the more scenic route and closer to sea level)
At a surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m), it straddles the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lake (1,945 ft (593 m)). Additionally, Lake Tahoe is the sixth largest lake by volume in the United States at 122,160,280 acreÂ·ft (150,682,490 dam3), behind the five Great Lakes.