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Up to Port Orford the coast is composed of schists & the last serpentine hill is at Port Orford  Between Orford & Blanco and at the foot of the latter is a small strip of Miocene. Six or seven miles north at village of Denmark is a stone quarry based on metamorphic rock above which are 4 - 500 feet of what Prof. C. takes to be Eocene rock but which bears no fossils, a sandstone some what altered in the central part of the [[drawing of half hoop]] fold. Then a low coast to the mouth of the Coquille but inland where the land rises to 500 feet or so, Cardita planicosta has been found.
Off the S. head of the Coquille are several schistose islets with felspathic and hornblendic crystals. In the sheltered nooks between these is found quaternary about 80 ft above the sea
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