32 TOPOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, [bull. 196. 
in California. From Point St. George both northward and south- 
ward for over a mile, soft yellowish and gray shaly sandstones and 
whitish shales full of fossils are exposed, and Dr. Dall refers these 
Point St. George beds, like those of Cape Blanco, to the horizon of the 
Empire beds. Although less than 100 feet of these strata are exposed, 
their determination is based on a rather large collection of fossils, 
and Ave may therefore speak with confidence of the Empire beds of 
Cape Blanco and Point St. George. 
Somewhat similar beds occur by the wharf at Crescent City (Crescent 
City beds), and among their fossiis Dr. Dall recognizes Pectenparmeleei 
and Terebratalia hemphilli, species heretofore known only from the 
southern California Pliocene. 
It is probable that these soft Miocene and Pliocene beds have a wide 
extent under the Pleistocene of the low, broad coastal plain extending 
from Smith River to a point 3 miles south of Crescent City. However 
this maybe, it is certain that they once extended 10 to 12 miles inland 
and have largely disappeared through erosion. Proof of this statement 
is found in the occurrence of Neocene deposits on the edge of the plateau 
at an elevation of about 2,200 feet along the old Wymer stage road, 
in section 20, about 13 miles northeast of Crescent Citj r . North of the 
old Harvey place, where Thomas Haley now lives, a thin coating of 
the soft, iron-stained, slightly indurated shaly sands is exposed on 
the banks of the road for several miles, and has furnished numerous 
imperfect casts of mollusks as well as impressions of leaves. A short 
distance farther eastward, in an excavation made by Mr. Williamson 
near his barn, in section 22, a very fine, soft, gray, sandy clay, very 
slightly indurated, is rich in shells, many of which are microscopic. 
At the surface this bed weathers rusty, and the prominent shells are 
removed from the casts, so that the rock appears like the one on the 
road farther west . 
The deposits of the two localities just mentioned will be called, for 
distinctness, the Wymer beds. They are very thin, resting on the 
surface of schists, peridotite, sandstone, and other rocks which have 
been cut down to an approximate plain. These fine argillaceous sedi- 
ments are composed largely of kaolinic material, with much angular 
quartz of disintegration and numerous minute siliceous organisms of 
radiolarian types. When heated it blackens and then becomes lighter, 
like the bituminous shales of the Monterey series. The W3mier beds 
on the edge of the Klamath peneplain evidently record closely the time 
of most complete peneplanation. Concerning these fossils Dr. Dall 
remarks: "No. 5541 (from Wymer road), a friable yellow shale, with 
very imperfect casts of bivalves, and part of No. 5552 (from William- 
son's barn), which is pale straw color but otherwise similar, have a 
Miocene aspect, but they are not of the Empire beds horizon." This 
remark was based on the presence of a Trochita, concerning which 
Dr. Dall remarks later: "On looking up the literature, I find Gabb 
