Marine terrace, Point Ano Neuvo, San Mateo County, California, 1905.
Dates
Date Taken
1905
Summary
View looking east from the top of the 40-foot marine terrace 1 mile east of Point Ano Nuevo. Vertical bluff on the left shows truncated beds of Purisima formation overlain by Quaternary deposits, the top of which forms the surface of the terrace. Merced formation in the white bluffs on the right; white Miocene shales form the hills in the distance. San Mateo County, California. May 1905. Published in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 163, figure 7. 1909.
Summary
View looking east from the top of the 40-foot marine terrace 1 mile east of Point Ano Nuevo. Vertical bluff on the left shows truncated beds of Purisima formation overlain by Quaternary deposits, the top of which forms the surface of the terrace. Merced formation in the white bluffs on the right; white Miocene shales form the hills in the distance.
San Mateo County, California. May 1905.
Published in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 163, figure 7. 1909.
Image located in the U.S.Geological Survey Photographic Collection, Ralph Arnold Collection Album, no.117.
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