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San Pedro San Pedro, CA

[S-N cross section of water front area in field book]

S end lowest terrace (bluff) looking N.E. from Crawfish Georges Crawfish Georges towards Timms Point Timms Point, contorted Miocene shales overlaid by horizontal layers of upper San Pedro.

Lumber yard bluff looking SW toward San Pedro Valley San Pedro Valley, upper and lower Pleistocene, unconformable. Upper soil is kitchen midden. Lumber yard fauna more like that 200 or 300 miles further south shows a change in climate.

Pliocene lithologically and faunally same as at San Diego San Diego, CA. 28 Pliocene species at Timm's Point Timms Point. Pliocene also found at R.R. cut in bluff in S.E. San Pedro, with a stratum filled with Thracia trapezoides Thracia trapezoides.

Lower San Pedro in bluffs, 140 species, including 14 not found on Deadman Island Deadman Island, CA.