234: The American Geologist. April, 1S97 
said to be of a mastodon, — thus, as far as the evidence goes, 
indicating Pliocene relations. Rocky soundings noted on the 
Coast Survey chart No. 6,450, between this locality and Foul 
Weather blutf, probably indicate eroded surfaces of the same 
strata. Invertebrate fossils are reported by Mr. Eugene Rick- 
secker, of the Lake Union, etc. Ship-canal survey (U. S.) on 
Doglish bay, Orchard inlet. An isolated body of coralline 
cement (limestone) surrounded by drift is said to occur 12 
miles up the Puyallup valley at a point known as Lime Kiln, 
and so designated on maps. Such a survival may not be 
without significance in connection with the Tejon uplift on 
tiie same line.* 
Outcrops of solid rock here described, together with re- 
ported occurrences as above noted, are tlie only survivals of 
which I have been able to learn within the generally baselev- 
eled area embraced by the marine basin of the sound; south, 
that is, of the basaltic development forming the border of 
Deception passage. All other land surfaces, so far as I am 
aware, including the immediate border of the sound, are wholly 
covered with glacial drift of great thickness. 
The distribution of baseleveled and eroded surfaces below 
tide, especially in the lower part of Admiralty inlet, is indi- 
cated by the Coast Survey charts. 
Covering a considerable part of the state of Washington, 
embraced by no other publication of the kind, the general ge- 
ologic map prepared by the Geological Survey of Canada from 
surveys made from 1842 to 1882, indicates the shores of Puget 
sound, as well as the wide expanse embraced by the lower part 
of the Columbia basin, as sedimentary Miocene. 
As to the Puget sound basin, this appears to have been on 
> the evidence of earlier determinations by Newberry, Lesquer- 
eux and Heer, of several collections of fossil flora from car- 
bonaceous strata on Bellingham bay and vicinity, which 
although sometimes still referred to the Miocene, are probably 
undistinguishable from the Chico portion of the Upper Cre- 
*Occurrences of Aucella at Seattle, and also on Vashon island in frag- 
mental blocks, as reported by Mr. Dlller, were for obvious reasons 
doubtless erratic. An occurrence in place on the Skagit, B.C., is re- 
ported by Dr. Dawson. 
Diller: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., iv, p. 217. 
Dawson: Desc. Sketch, p. 51. 
