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stratified yellow sand which near the top becomes mixed with gravel, more brightly colored with iron oxide and finally capped by one or two feet of rejetable mould. Beyond the point where the fossiliferous beds dip into the beach the sand beds become thicker and maintain a height of thirty or forty feet above the beach to Pt Castillo
Toward which they become indurated forming a solid yellowish sandstone requiring blasting to remove and weathering into bizarre shapes. It is being used in the construction of the seawall intended to protect a driveway along the upper edge of the beach
This formation seems always to have a bed of pebbles at its base. There are sometimes several beds of gravel with finer material between them but always [[ore?]].