COAST LINE LOS ANGELES TO SAN FEANCISCO. 



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With the porinission of the Museum of History, Science, and Art 

 the Rancho La Brea may be visited. On the way thither the traveler 



Excursions from Los 

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passes over a portion of the great alhivial plain of Los 

 Angeles, which is underlain, at least in part, by three 

 Quaternary formations, the oldest of which is a marine 

 deposit laid down horizontally on the beveled edges of a very thick 

 series of tilted Pliocene beds. This marine Quaternary deposit has a 

 thickness of 100 feet in the northwestern part of the city but thins 

 to an edge near the ancient sea cliff beyond. Los Angeles River exca- 





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