COAST LINE LOS ANGELES TO SAN FRANCISCO. 127 



Although fields of hay with scattered oaks predominate near 

 Sunnyvale, there arc large tracts devoted to orchards and market 



gardens. The climate and soil of the lower Santa 

 Sunnyvale. Clara Valley between San Jose and Sumiyvale, like 



Elevation 93 feet. that of Lompoc Valley (p. Ill), are such that seeds 

 PopiUation i;^9-* matin-c well, and there are several largo seed farms 



Los Angeles 433 miles. * ^ 



near Smniyvalo and Santa Clara. 

 Near Mountain View the raihoad runs nearer to the foothills of 

 the Santa Cruz Range. The lowest hills are composed of sandstone 



belonging to the lower part of the Monterey group. 

 Mountain View. Black Mountain (elevation 2,787 feet), the culminat- 



Eievation 76 feet. ing poiut of Moutc Bcllo Ridge, is the most prominent 



Sr.^:"r;;Li.,. peak of this part of the range. Just belmid it lies 



the San Andreas fault or rift. (See pp. 89-90.) Tlie 

 f Black Mountain are maiidv sandstone with some 



Los Angeles 435 miles. 



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crushed annually and shipped to beet-sugar factories. Some of the 

 best red wine made in California is produced near Mountain View. 



From Castro, about a mile beyond Mountain View, is visible on 

 the right the Dumbarton Bridge on the railroad freight route from 



Oakland to San Francisco. 



At milenost 33 on the left, ahead and more than a mile away, may 



ng the trees the red-tiled roofs of the Stanford University 



buildings. The entrance to the university grounds 



is on the left, near the Palo Alto station, and the uni- 



Eievation 58feet. vcrsity buildiugs, a mile away, hidden from the station 



Palo Alto, 



Population 4,486. 

 Los Angeles 441 miles. 



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men and women. The medical department is in San Francisco and 

 tlie marine biological laboratory at Pacific Grove. Tlio buildings 

 of the other departments are on the Stanford University tract, 

 which embraces 8,400 acres. The buildings (see PL XXXIII, A), 

 designed originally by H. H. Kichardson, take then- architectural 

 motif from the cloisters of the San Antonio mission, and the combina- 

 tion of buff sandstone with red tiled roofs gives striking color effects. 

 Tlie buff sandstone came from the quarries at Graystone, about 10 

 miles south of San Jose, and is of early Miocene 



(Monterey) age. 



fault 



mile 



from that point. The university suffered much from the earthquake 



but has completely recovered. 



The accompanying cross section from Palo Alto to the summit of 

 Santa Cruz Mountams (fig. 15, p. 128) shows the general geologic 



structure 



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