Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
Page 89
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At 3.30 attended the meeting of the Lo Conte Geological Club of Berkeley and Stanford Univ. Rogers spoke on the Canyon Chatter near Circula trench and concluded its origin as primarily due to a plumed in of a great meteorite. Then Chavez spoke of the climatic change during the Pleis- tocene of the West Coast. Back at the Pliocene time was a wide spread Redwood flora that was then restricted to a narrow strip of about 60 miles only the Pacific slope. It forms wider distri- bution (about 200 miles wide) primarily took place in Pleiocene time for drier climate flora of landwoods and willows that grew along stream courses. Cause the rise of the Cascade Mts. This history is unlike that of the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Plains. Then Monson spoke on his peculiar ring of paleoclimates. It was a poor presentation, and his ideas were guided by by C.A. Bowie of the Geothin Bureau (D.T.). He is a brother of Bowie of forestry fame. At 6.30 P.M. we all sat down to a