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 Coajst of Bancoiiter 31)2^lanD 



Isabel Henkel 



During the summer of 1903, the writer 

 spent the month of July at the Minnesota 

 Seaside Station, near Port Renfrew, on the 

 west coast of Vancouver Island, and at this time 

 the notes for this paper were taken. 



The shore of this coast is remarkable for 

 its extreme rockiness, and for the varieties of 

 erosion produced by the waves and the tides. 

 Fairly well back from the shore, the rocks stand 

 in vertical cliffs, with flat rock in front sloping 

 gently to the water's edge. Plate XX. fig. i. is a 

 good illustration of the shore line. 



The principal rock formations are sand- 

 stone, conglomerate, and shale. From a com- 

 parison of the rocks at points where the series 

 is complete, it is seen that the shale lies 

 at the bottom, the conglomerate overlies the 

 shale, and the sandstone overlies the conglom- 

 erate. It happens, however, in many places, 



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