Vol. IX] 



SMITH— CLIMATIC RELATIONS 



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Table of Pliocene and Pleistocene of Southern 

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Upper San Pedro, of San Pedro, San Diego, and 

 many other points in the southern California em- 

 bayment. Unconsolidated sands, several hundred 

 feet thick, and gently tilted. Fauna with many 

 tropical species. 



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Lower San Pedro, of San Pedro, Ventura and 

 Santa Barbara, unconsolidated sands, somewhat 

 more disturbed, with cold-temperate (Puget 

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Santa Barbara, of Santa Barbara, Dead Man 

 Island, and many other places in the San Pedro 

 region. Sands and clays slightly more disturbed, 

 with cold-temperate (Puget Sound) fauna. 

 These are the equivalent of the Santa Clara beds 

 in middle California. 



San Diego, of San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa 

 Susanna, Camulos Ranch, etc., with mixture of 

 southern (predominating) and northern types. 

 This is the equivalent of the Merced of middle 

 California. 



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Fernando, of Elsmere Canyon, Fernando Pass, 

 Temescal Canyon, Third St. Tunnel in Los An- 

 geles, Puente Hills, and the older beds in old 

 San Diego, underlying the San Diego formation. 

 The fauna is characterized by Ficus nodiferus, 

 Lyropecten ashleyi, giant Conns, and Astrodapsis 

 fernandoensis. 



Carriso, of Carrizo Creek in Imperial County, and 

 Cerros Island, Lower California. Fauna with 

 Pecten veatchi, Pecten ashleyi, Pecten cerrosen- 

 sis, Clypeaster bowersi, Encope tenuis, Dolium, 

 giant Conus, Olivia porphyria, and reef-forming 

 Astraeidae. This is the tropical equivalent of the 

 Jacalitos-Etchegoin of middle California. 



