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-- Point Loma near San Diego, May 17, 1892 --
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Drive out to the old lighthouse over the ridge forming the point. The superficial layers have been greatly eroded forming amphitheaters with bizarre forms. The strata are composed of more or less indurated sand covered by a thin layer of adobe soil. apparently all of Post Pliocene age. Toward the end of the point the sand comes to the surface and is here compacted into a loose coarse grained sand stone. The sandy layers are of considerable thickness. At the base of the Point the shales and sand stones of the Chico group come out according to Hamlin.