PHYSICAL AND CLIMATIC SETTING 5 



hundred miles east of the great circle route from 

 the Panama Canal to the chief Asiatic ports and has 

 the natural ports of call for all ships which will be 

 engaged in the vast future traffic between the two 

 hemispheres via Panama, However, to embrace her 

 geographical opportunity to act as an adequate Ameri- 

 can factor in homologizing the two great eastward 

 and westward moving civilizations, which must be ac- 

 complished on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Cali- 

 fornia must advance to ten or twenty fold her pres- 

 ent development in population, industry, learning and 

 the humanistic arts and sciences. It will be one of 

 the purposes of this writing to demonstrate that Cali- 

 fornia has the natural endowments, the capability 

 and the lofty purpose to justify her tenancy of such 

 a place and to discharge such a function on the 

 earth. 



THE STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY 



From the point of view of geology, California, and 

 adjacent Pacific Coast territory of course, is a new 

 country as compared with the area from the Rocky 

 Mountains eastward, as formations conceded to be 

 most ancient and preceding the appearance of life 

 on the planet are not widely discernible. Although 

 the most ancient tokens of earth structure are not 

 abundant and must be intelligently sought for, the 

 Pacific Coast is very rich in records of more recent 

 geologic time. As has been picturesquely said, "The 

 history of the relatively recent periods, of the geo- 



