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EDWARD HOIT NUTTER 



reaches an elevation of nearly two thousand feet above Kings 

 City from near Parkfield northwest to a point fifteen miles east 

 of Kings City. 



The structure of the country between Kings City and the allu- 

 vium covered district is shown by (Fig. 3) a section through Metz. 



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Fig. 3. — Structure of the Salinas Valley along a northeast-southwest line 

 through Metz. 



From Kings City to the San Luis Obispo county line the Pli- 

 ocene beds form the eastern escarpment of the immediate valley 

 with an average height of about one hundred feet above the river. 

 The lower beds extend entirely under the valley, thereby making 

 the terrace area or plateau tributary to its underground water 

 supply. 



For the most part the Pliocene beds overlie the Miocene, 



but in some places 

 they lie directly on the 

 older rocks (Fig. 4) . 



In the southern 

 part of Monterey 

 county there have 

 been at least two ele- 



Fig. 4.— Croppings of terrace beds five miles north- vations of the land 

 east of Kings City at the head of the Salinas Valley since the deposition 

 Water Company's ditch, on the San Lorenzo River. r , , ,„■. , , 



v J of the Miocene beds, 



for the Pliocene gravels forming the large plateau are to a great 

 extent composed of shale pebbles, and these same pebble 

 beds have been tilted along with the underlying beds of 

 shale. In places the Pliocene and Miocene may be conformable. 



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