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Species found by W. S. W. Kew at Carrizo Creek. The beds occurring at the 

 latter locality are considered by T, W. Vaughan as not older than Lower Plio- 

 cene. 



VAQUER08 FORMATION IN CALIFORNIA 

 BY W. F. LOEL 



(Abstract) 



The horizon markers and principal features show this division of the Lower 

 Miocene to be a distinct and true formation, both faunally and lithologically. 



TERTIARY AND PLEISTOCENE FORMATIONS OF THE NORTH COAST OF PERU, 



SOUTH AMERICA 



BY G. C. GESTER 



(Abstract) 



The Tertiary formations of the north coast of Peru are similar in many re- 

 spects to the Tertiary formations of the west coast of North America. A 

 comparison of the faunas shows many closely related species. An interesting 

 feature of the north Peruvian coast is the elevated tableland, or "tablaza," 

 which extends for several miles inland from the coast. The "tablaza beds" 

 are richly fossiliferous and probably belong to, the Pleistocene period. 



SYMPOSIUM ON CORRELATION OF OLIOOCENE FAUNAS AND FORMATIONS OF 



THE PACIFIC COAST 



BY C. E. WEAVER, R. E. DTCKERSON, AND B. L. CLARK 



PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE OLIGOCENE OF WASHINGTON 

 BY CHARLES E. WEAVER 



(Abstract) 



Two Oligocene embayments occur in Washington. The northern embayment 

 occupied approximately the area between the Olympic Mountains and Van- 

 couver Island and extended into the Puget Sound Basin as far south as Seattle. 

 The southern embayment existed in the present region of Gray's Harbor and 

 extended as far south as the Cowlitz Valley, in the northern part of Cowlitz 

 County. In the northern embayment there were deposited approximately 14,000 

 feet of sandstone and shale. In the southern embayment the deposits are 

 4,000 feet in thickness. The basal faunas in the southern embayment, as repre- 

 sented at Oakville, are the same as the basal faunas in the northern embay- 

 ment at Port Discovery Bay, near Port Townsend, and also the basal beds on 

 the south shore of Vancouver Island, which have been described as the Sooke 

 Beds. In both the northern and southern embayments the strata above the 

 Sooke Beds contain a fauna of subtropical character which has been designated 

 the Molopophorous Uncolnensis zone, the type locality of which is at Lincoln 

 Creek, in Thurston County. In the northern embayment the Upper Oligocene 



