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Santa Barbara Cala

Bluff at beach SW of the pier composed of alternate harder and softer layers of [[indurated?]] mud composed chiefly of fine clay and with some admixture of very fine sand. The harder layers are throroughly stony the softer ones variable sometimes cutting like cheese under the blade of a penknife. They are crammed with remains of polyzoa and small shells especially [[underlined]] Bittium [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Astyris? [[/underlined]], with crushed remains of sarxidomus,[[Chiore?]] and other large shells, sparsely distributed. The bluff rises between 40 and 50 feet from the beach and is inclined 5° - 8° to the south.
Many of the shells retain their colors and the age is doubtless Pleistocene
The upper portion of the bluff, perhaps one third is of conformably