They compared prices at Whole Foods stores in half a dozen cities to those at various competing supermarkets to determine which stores were cheaper. They found that Whole Foods is about 15% more expensive than other conventional supermarkets, such as Kroger, Wegmans, and Safeway.
A type of igneous rock. Basalt is the most common rock type in the earth's crust and makes up most of the ocean floor.
23 Chert is a type of rock in the oceanic crust that formed from silica shells of microscopic organisms deposited on the deep ocean floor. Chert is present throughout California, but especially in the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. 24 Two blocks of granitic rock, known as the Salinian Block of the Coast Ranges, more closely resemble rocks of the Sierra Nevada rather than most of the rocks making up most of the Coast Ranges. One block lies between the Nacimiento and San Andreas Fault Zones in the southern Coast Ranges and west of the San Andreas Fault in the northern Coast Ranges, suggesting large displacement along the San Andreas and Nacimiento Faults.