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Had a talk with Ordway about the general structure
of Mexico. He holds that Mexico on the US, are not
related geologically. The Archon of Mexico was in
lay at continuous elevation always high and unequal
elevation. It was a piece of another nucleus upon
which the sea did not encroached until (I gleaned this
from his remarks for he did not say it) Cretaceous time.
At Terrantique, the Carboniferous sea did attain
but further north certainly not before Jurassic. In
Arizona one have considerable geologies and according
to the view the sea must have encroached from the
North and West. Therefore the Mexican Archon our-
cless must have extended Southward and includes
the Car Antilles. The suggestion of Ordway is
very suppostori. He says he has traveled into
California and Arizona to see the Mexico connected,
and sees more, One can separate very carefully as one
geologically.
A few miles south of Tomellin station a very
fine contact is shown between the Middle Cretaceous and
the Tertiary conglomerate. Here it is core made of
of Cret. Permian faces. A mile and a half north are
Pegmatite (on sample).
The Cretaceous hereabouts in the canyon Tomellin.