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the author in different '!f1ays during the t:ur;c spont in thfl fields11

The laboratory and library facilities at California Insti•tut0

of Technology were of' great a.ssiatance in the prepe.,ratio:n of the

STRA TIGRAPiff

?4etamorphio and elastic sedimentary aN distributed

extensively in the .map areal!! About SOOO feet of eerliments 11 rangil1g

1n age from Eocene to Recant, were deposited :tn an a.rea underla:i.n

81'.'tinitio and metamorphic rocks@ 'ft.Mi~ a~dimenta are younger ·t.o tho

west and to the south, indicating that tho area studied repr.eaants the

margin of a large basi.n.

Basement rooks,

The northeastern.moat part of' the area stuiiied 1e 1.'¾)Jpr.eiss:ntA:!d

by 3.,2 square miles of ootam.orphio .rocks named by Hershey Jl,../ Pelona

J:./ Hershey, Oll'H. "Quaternary of' Southern Cal.itorniani. The Americ,r1,'l
Geologist, Vol-, 29, 1902B,, Legend of ms.p P.lo I'll

schists., It forms part of' a tongue projected to the southwest, f'ro:m the

southern flank or the.Sierra Palona anticline,

A thrust fault separates the Pslona schists from Eooene(?)-

YJ.Qeene( ?) red beds on the west., whereae a non~onformable depoa:l.tfonal