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----- Redding Cal -----------

The fossiliferous sandstones of Redding seem to be unconformably adjacent to the metamorphic schists of the valley further up. Near Middle Creek the valley which is narrow begins to widen and its floor is formed by the irregular edges of the schists where the floods have laid them bare, above them is the coarse reddish gravel containing many rather large cobblestones. One third of the way, or so, from the middle schists come to an end and there is a series of some what crumpled strata, the lower of which are sandstones, mostly a good deal tilted & dipping to the S & W. Over these lie (1) a ten or twelve foot stratum of gray sand with enough clay in it to give