METAMORPHIC SERIES OF SHASTA COUNTY. 6ll 



Professor W. Waagen 1 has also shown that the Alpine and the 

 Himalayan Trias are similar, but that the Salt Range Trias 

 belongs to the Arctic province. We have, then, in California a 

 prolongation of the Alpine Trias province through the Himalaya 

 region. The fossils of the Trias in British Columbia, described 

 by J.'F. Whiteaves, 2 look quite different from those known in 

 California, but it is as yet impossible to say whether this differ- 

 ence is due to geographical separation, to climatic differences, 

 or to difference in geological horizon. 



THE BEND FORMATION. 



The Bend formation was named by J. S. Diller 3 to include all 

 the Jurassic deposits of the region of the Big Bend of Pitt river. 

 In a later publication Mr. Diller 4 says that the Pitt river Jura 

 corresponds to the Mormon sandstone, Middle Jura, of the 

 Taylorsville region. About six miles west of Big Bend, in Big 

 canyon, H. W. Fairbanks 5 discovered fossils in shaly limestones 

 which, on examination by the writer, proved to be Jurassic and 

 probably equivalent to the Hardgrave sandstone, Lower Jura, of 

 Indian valley. The writer afterwards visited this locality and 

 found the fossiliferous beds in place, in the bottom of the 

 canyon. The joint collections yielded : 



Montlivaiiltia sp. Pecten sp. 



Pholadoinya nevadana, Gabb. Gryphaea sp. 

 Entoliu7?i meeki, Hyatt. Lima sp. 



About nine miles west of Big canyon, on the east branch of 

 Squaw creek, near the house of John Miles, the writer found in 

 1893 a shaly limestone with a few fossils that seem to belong to 

 the Jura. Among these were some small gasteropods, a Pecten 



1 Jahrbuch K. K. Geol. Reichsanstalt Wien., 42 Band, 1892, pp. 384-385. 



2 Geol. Survey Canada, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology, Vol. I. Part II. 

 pp. 127-149. 



3 U. S. Geol. Survey, Geol. Atlas, Lassen Peak Sheet, 1892, J. S. Diller. 



4 Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. Vol. IV. 1893, p. 221. 



5 Eleventh Rep. California Min. Bu. 1893, Geology and Mineralogy of Shasta 

 County, p. 29. 



