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La Jolla near San Diego.
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Lower bed of sandstone bluish gray [[insertion]] quartz [[/insertion]], with hornblende, weathering yellow brown, or reddish from iron oxide but here & there remaining gray - at base of bluff this is massive and uniform without fossils. Towards the top it shows an oyster bed upon which the coarser material including [[corallischama orcutti?]] lies in a layer 18 in to two feet thick. It includes also Ostrea, Limy, Belemnites, Axinea, [[insertion]] [[Veatchii?]] [[/insertion]], Malittia?, Tereboatella? Spondylus. [[image]] etc. Tellina Nucula
It dips S 20° W at an angle of 25° to 35° and is conformably overlaid by the shales to the south which alternate harder sandy & softer clayey layers the former thin the latter thicker. The sandy layers are rarely