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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