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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII 
View on the Kern River looking west from point one mile below 
Barker’s ranch. Recent flood-plain shown in foreground; Neocene hills 
in background showing Temblor beds near “Zone C”’; abrupt change of 
formation noted on slopes marks the base of the Kern River group; terrace 
at the top 350 feet above the river. 
