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formations. The principal part of the range, as previously 



formation 



in a southeasterly 



m the hill about three-fourths of a mile west of Montecito. This 



affects the Fernando formation much like the anticline at Summer - 



land, but although the Summerland fold yields oil the Montecito 

 fold does not. 



Near Santa Barbara the train passes a lagoon which, like that at 

 Carpinteria, indicates a recent settling of the coast. 



The city of Santa Barbara lies in a broad valley between the Santa 

 Ynez (ee'ness) Range on the northeast and a group of low hills on the 



southwest. To the southeast this valley opens on 

 Santa Barbara. the Santa Barbara Channel. Thft inflosii 



g hills 



Elevation 6 feet. ui gcutly slopmg sca tcrraccs on which in 

 fri^fX^f !;„. the city has been buHt. Sheltered from 



Los Angeles 104 miles. 



winds 



sparklmg Hue waters of the channel, Santa Barbara enjoys a situation 

 and a climate that have made it famous as a resort and give its gar- 

 dens such beauty as can be found in few other places in the world. 



mission 



photographs. It is well worth visiting. 

 Lavisria Hill, direct! v southwo.st nf tV 



hundrods 



g at a number 



of places weU-proserved fossil sea shells of Pliocene age. At the east 

 base of the hill, near the bathhouse, is an exposure of soft limy beds 

 (marl) containing fossil marine shells and impressions of the moss- 

 like sea animals known as bryozoans. These also are Phocene. 

 Along the coast west of Santa Barbara Point the Monterey shale is 

 exposed underlying the Fernando l)eds of Lavigia Hill. 



The hills lying at the foot of the main range just north of Santa 

 Barbara and extending westward for several miles have been shaped 

 by erosion from one or more old marine terraces which formerly 

 stretched along the seaward base of the range. 



The raih-oad, from a place near Santa B^irbara to Point Concep- 

 tion, a distance of about 40 miles, follows a well-defined shore terrace 

 but little above sea level. On and near this terrace are wdnut 

 groves, orchards, bean plantations, and broad areas of roUin- oat and 

 barley hay lands. From it may bo had broad outlooks over the sea, 

 with Its floating masses of sea weed, now mapped by the Government 

 ^ a possible source of potash, and inland views of the rugcred Santa 

 Ynez Range, with its white rocks projecting from what at a distance 

 looks like a mossy cover of chaparral. This terrace is capped by 

 soft conglomerates and sandstones which show in many raiboad cuts 

 heir horizontal beds, wonderfully sculptured into vertical forms by 



rains 



(See PI. XXVIIO Th 



