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PKOCEEDIXGS or THE ALBUQUERQUE MEETING 



iient peak of a continuous range. It shows a remarkably complete strati- 

 graphic series of the characteristic Coast Range formations. Structurally it is 

 an overtui'ned and overthrust auticliue of very late origin. There is also evi- 

 dence of an earlier structural form. The geology of mount Diablo may be 

 taken as showing a stratigraphic succession and an orogenic history character- 

 istic of the coast ranges from the Klamath mountains to the Tehachapi. 



Discussion by A. C. Lane, A. C. Lawson, and H. P. Gushing. 

 The following papers were then read by title : 



THE EARTHQUAKE IS OWESS VALLEY, CALIFORSIA, IX 1872 

 BY WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS 



BEGIXXJXG AXD RECESSION OF SAINT ANTHONY FALLS 

 BY FREDERICK W. SABDESON 



This paper was printed as pages 29-52 of this volume. 



TEE "NEBRASKA LOESS MAN" 

 BY B. SHIMEK 



This paper was printed as pages 243-254 of this volume. 



DISTRIBUTION OF DRUilLINS AND ITS BEARING ON THEIR ORIGIN 



BY FRANK B. TAYLOR 

 CIRQUES AND ROCK-CUT TERRACES OF MOUNT TOBEY, MASSACHUSETTS 



BY B. K. EMERSON 



The next paper was 



LOWER PORTION OF THE PALEOZOIC SECTION IN NORTHWESTERN NEW YORK 



BY H. P. GUSHING 



This paper was published as pages 155-176 of this volume. The paper 

 was discussed by H. M. Ami. 



At 12.15 o'clock the Society adjourned for luncheon in the dining- 

 room of the university, after which President Tight led the way to the 

 flat roof of one of the pueblo style dormitories, from which he j^ointed 

 out the geological features of the surrounding country. 



At 2 o'clock the afternoon session began with the reading of the an- 

 nual address b}' the retiring President, President Charles E. Van Hise, 

 of the University of "Wisconsin, who chose as his subject "The problem 

 of the pre-Cambrian." By request of the President, his address was 

 thrown open to discussion, and remarks were made by A. C. Lane, A. C. 



