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Pacific Beach near S. Diego
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From just above False Bay the beach is bordered by high bluffs of sand but little indurated. In this sand are layers of Pliocene shells especially Pecten Opalia etc. The Pliocene sands are covered by a layer of gravel with the usual pebbles and Pleistocene sands. The Bluffs extend for half a mile above the hotel. Northward from False Bay at the base of the Pleistocene sands the Pliocene has been denuded, the strata being nearly horizontal, on the denuded Pliocene is deposited a layer of gravel with a large number of Post Pliocene shells above which are gravel sand and