434 



Index 



Carrizo Mountain 339 



Carson River 29 



Cascade Range, southern end 96 



Cerro Gordo Mine, Inyo Mountains 

 187, 188 



Channel Islands 377 



Chaos Crags 102 



Chert and shales in Berkeley Hills 142 



Chico formation 76 



Cienaga 260, 265 



Cinder Cone 32, 103 



Cinder cones in Owens Valley 186 



Cirques 29, 30, 81, 185, 196 



Coachella Valley 340 



Coastal Plain 247, 250; San Diego 336 



Coast Ranges 66, 69, 74, 75, 93; 

 sinking and rising 82; uplifted 76 



Colorado Desert 4, 5, 107, 110 



Colorado River 114 



Columnar basalt, 406; on Truckee 



River 398 



Conchilla Desert 22 

 Conrad Quadrangle, Areal Geology 



Map 89 



Consequent streams 39, 148 

 Continental Divide 3 1 

 Corona 249 

 Coyote Mountain 20 

 Coyote Wells 338 

 Creosote bush 107 

 Crest more 268 

 Cretaceous rocks 75 

 Cucamonga Creek 43 

 Cuyama Peak 226 



Date farms 21 

 Date gardens 108, 113, 340 

 Date palms 12 

 "Dead" faults 252 



Death Valley 1, 56, 120, 124, 126, 

 127, 356, 358, 369; salt field 125 



Del Norte County 419 



Deltas or alluvial fans 53, 54 



Delta of the Colorado 109, 110 



Devil's Basin 30 



Devil's Garden 22, 345 



Devil's Kitchen 75 



Devil's Playground 356, 357 



Devil's Post Pile 27, 28 



Diablo Range 385 



Diatoms 289; source of oil 293, 294 



Donner Lake 396; Lake and Pass 395; 



Pass 163 



Drowned rivers 335; valleys 147 

 Dry lake or playa 125 

 Dry ice 339 



Eel River 417 



El Centro 17 



El Paso Mountains 26, 366 



Elsinore fault 338, 343 



Elsmere oil field 362 



Encinitas 336 



Eocene epoch, volcanic disturbances 



at end of 79 

 Eureka 417 



Fanglomerates 235, 238, 353 



Fan-palms 21 



Farallone Islands 4, 131 



Fault blocks, San Francisco Bay, 144 



Feather River Canyon 99 



Fernando formation 260; epoch 261 



Fishing in Mendocino County 418 



Fort Ross 412 



Fossils, Carrizo Mountain 340 



Fossils of extinct animals 257 



Founders' Tree 415 



Franciscan formation, 63, 64; rocks 



68, 69, 70, 71, 74; Age of 72 

 Fremont Valley 26 

 Furnace Creek Inn 359 



