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Dead Man's Island at end of San Pedro break water. Los Angeles Co. Cal
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This island is peculiar in its makeup being composed (in descending order) of gravel with Pleistocene fossils. of indurated sandstone mostly massive with fossils scattered through it, mostly still living but not in this vicinity at present. This has been referred to the Pliocene. Below this is a bed of claystone which contains a good many fossils but which has been crushed, the fissures filled with silex or limy matter as a breccia in indurated sand of the layer above mentioned. Lastly the lowest bed visible at low water is composed of a rather soft but