UNIVERSITY OK CALIFORNIA 



Bulletin of the Department of Geology 



Vol. I, No. 8, pp. 241-272. ANDREW C. LAWSON, Editor 



THE 



( ; E O M O R P H OGE N Y * 



OF THE 



"COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



BY 



Andrew C. Lawson. 

 CONTENTS. 



Introduction 241 



Evidences of General Uplift 242 



Traces of an Ancient Peneplain 242 



Former Baselevel Bench Marks 244 



Stream Topography 250 



Eel River 253 



The Wild-cat Series 255 



Distribution 255 



The Ferndale Section 256 



Relation of Sculpture to Geology 257 



The Scotia Section 259 



Fossils 260 



Diastrophism 26r 



The Golden Gate Subsidence 263 



Summary 269 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the month of June last the writer made an excursion on 

 horseback along the coast of northern California from the Golden 

 Gate to Eureka. The trip was taken primarily for recreation, but 

 also with the design of extending the reconnaissance which the 



*The origin, or process of development, of the geomorphy of any portion 

 of the earth's crust, geomorphy being a synonym of topography in the broader 

 application of that term. 



