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Berkeley, Sunday Feb 27.
At 9 A.M. Dr. etu Castle called at the
hotel with [illegible] and Mr. Fry, and we are off
to see the structure between here and Mt.
Diablo. He has been working about this
region for 15 years and has it fairly in hand.
The faults mapped by Larson through his
students is in parts quite wrong.
There is a major thrust of the Mt. Diablo
area of Franciscan rocks with outlying parts
of Chier and Cengric, from the N.E. to the
S.W. It has an intricate or simple
structure and is in part still in motion.
The movement started later the Pleiocene.
It includes "closed rally structures", i.e. as
certain extent m and areas thinned and broadened,
tho whole rally was closed tho eastern moves
close up to the western end at the same swinging
around to the north. That the field is still folding
is seen in that the alluvium onto the under-
lying strata are thrown into slight and decided
folds. All around the whole area to the N.E.