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achieved b,y t,he weight of overlying sed:lments aa strongly iraggeat,ed
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cy ·:·,:·..c2, slat~, ;1leavago developod parallel to bedding. Contempo'l:'a.r,-101111.1

fa.idlitated the opening into which several quartril vei:ne were deposited,~

The thickness; or thl!:l metamorphic rocke hae been nmaaured

outside the limits of' the areal' :J.n one of the lim'ba of Pelonl"l au·u-

clim,,, 8 ,300 feet were recorded., TI'l9 age of ~hese beds is probably
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pre-Creta.ceous taking into consideration that root&'110rphism a.nr]
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butholith intrusions ooc.,urred elaowhere in Ca.lifornia dt.wi.ng t,hE:

Eocene rockso

The northernmost part of the map il.U"'l9a inolua,~s rook~

of probable Eocene age, No fossil evidence was i"ound ~v the writo:r ~

but Clements .:L/ indfoa.tas trait farther north invertebratts :Cossils 0

The Eocene st:ra.t:tgrephic sect;l.on is fl{iveral hundr1:id fee:rt