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General Character of Decade 1893-1903 200 



Advantage of Local (Provincial) Name 201 



Period of 1904 to the Present (1912) 201 



Opening of the Period 201 



Salinas Valley— Hamlin, 1904 202 



San Luis Quadrangle — Fairbanks, 1904 202 



San Mateo County— Haehl and Arnold, 1904 203 



The Formation-Faunal Stage Fallacy 204 



San Pablo and General — Merriam, 1904 205 



Depositional and Faunal Facies 205 



Faunal Zones 206 



Southern Coast Ranges — F. M. Anderson, 1904 207 



Coalinga Region — F. M. Anderson, 1905 207 



California Formations and Faunas — Arnold, 1906 208 



Santa Clara Valley Oil Fields— Eldridge and Arnold, 1907 209 



Puente Hills— Eldridge, 1907 210 



Los Angeles— Arnold, 1907 211 



Sumerland District— Arnold, 1907 212 



Santa Maria District — Arnold and Robert Anderson, 1907 212 



Coalinga-McKittriek Region — F. M. Anderson, 1908 214 



Geological History of Coast Ranges — Lawson, 1908 215 



Santa Cruz Folio — Branner, Newsom, Arnold, 1909 216 



Environment of Tertiary Faunas — Arnold, 1909 219 



Coalinga Oil District — Arnold and R, Anderson, 1910 219 



Cantua-Panoehe Region — R. Anderson, 1910 220 



McKittriek-Sunset Region — Arnold and Johnson, 1910 221 



Geologic Record of California— J. P. Smith, 1910 222 



Sargent Oil Field— Jones, 1911 223 



Kern River Region — F. M. Anderson, 1911 224 



"Temblor Basin" 226 



South End San Joaquin Valley— R. Anderson, 1912 228 



Miocene Invertebrate Fossils — J. P. Smith, 1912 229 



San Jose and Mt. Hamilton Quadrangles — Templeton, 1912 231 



Kirker Pass— Clark, 1912 232 



Part III. — General Conclusions 232 



General Description of Monterey Series 232 



Monterey Sediments 232 



General Distribution 232 



Progress of Sedimentation 233 



Effect of Geographical Conditions 234 



Depositional Oscillation 235 



Chert 236 



Relation to the Occurrence of Petroleum 236 



Volcanic Products in the Monterey Series 236 



Tuffs 236 



Lavas 237 



Limits of the Series 237 



Palaeontologic Characters 238 



Fauna 238 



Faunal Stages 239 



Summary Statement of Various Other Conclusions 240 



