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under the form of the 'Monterey series' will be adopted as the 

 local designation of the series" (p. 7). 



That by "local designation" he meant to include the whole 

 depositional province, is shown by the statement : ' ' The rocks 

 of the Monterey series, as displayed in the vicinity of Carmelo 

 Bay, are representative of the Miocene wherever it occurs for 

 several hundred miles along the coast of California" (p. 22). 

 A rather full description and discussion of the origin and rela- 

 tionship of the series follows, and it is plotted on the map of 

 Carmelo Bay, Plate I, as the "Monterey Series (Miocene)." 



That it was not intended to so designate merely a lithologic 

 type is indicated by the following: "Near the base of the series 

 at the town of Monterey there are some sandstones. There are 

 also occasional lenses of a dense yellowish to mauve-colored fos- 

 siliferous limestone, and . . . there are some beds which are 

 both calcareous and gritty" (p. 24). Volcanic ash is also 

 described in the series. 



A list of fossils is given as determined by Dall, in addition 

 to those reported by Blake, and the conclusion reached that the 

 series is Miocene. 



Point Sal, Fairbanks, 1S96. — In 1896, Fairbanks 30 described 

 representatives of this series from Point Sal under the desig- 

 nation "Miocene." He notes 1000 feet of "bituminous shales" 

 carrying Pecten peckkami Gabb, including limestone, calcareous 

 sandstone, marly rocks and flints, below which are "gypsiferous 

 clays" 1800 feet, three strata of ash. and finally 2000 feet of soft 

 sandstone, shale, and conglomerate. 



Santa Catalma Island, W. S. T. Smith, 1897.— -In 1897 W. S. 

 T. Smith described 31 diatomaceous Miocene shale, volcanic tuff 

 and limestone on Santa Catalina Island, associated with Tcllina 

 congesta, Conrad. The diatom remains were discussed by G. J. 

 Hinde. 



San Clemente Island, W. S. T. Smith, 1898.— In 1898 he de- 

 scribed "Miocene" beds on San Clemente Island, 32 beginning as 

 sandstones and passing into yellowish to grayish white shales, 



so Bull. Dept. of Geo]. Univ. Calif., vol. 2; see pp. 9-18 (1896). 

 si Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei., 3rd Ser. Geology, vol. 1, no. 1 (1897). 

 32 U. S. Geol. Surv., 18th Annual Rept., 465-496 (1898). 



