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Berkeley, Tuesday, Feb 22
George Washington's first day, and a
bright day it is, that some mist is in the air
coming in from the Pacific.
Worked all day with Clark on my paleo-
graphic maps. They are telling me a changed
look and specially in the vanishing of the Bride
land. Will finish tomorrow. See notes
everywhere.
At 3.30 Clark took me in his Ford over
the Berkeley Hills to see two of the fault valleys
and several of the faults' heads. All of the
shale are much folded and often crumpled
in play due to being near the fault
zone. Our Franciscan, Cretaceous and
much of Oligocene. The tops down of the hills
is to many fault scarp.
These hills are filled with dunes and
many glacial cones. Some is paying attention
to the nature of the ground and may dunes
are built on a fault zone that may form
ago opened 17 feet. The most fashionable