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marks the top of the 3 terrace. Terrace rock covered sloping seaward and
from 100 to 150 feet wide to next terrace.
Base of 5th terrace at the top of these 23 feet. This the best marked
terraces going below, it has a width of about 250 to 300 feet.
The sixth terrace begins at the top of the Andraezathine
reef and is estimated here to have a width of 1000 feet. In this
1000 feet the strata are concealed and are estimated to a thick-
ess of 450 feet. The terrace is backed by a 13 foot cliff.
The cliff having the Andraezathine at other places, is made up
of two cliffs separated by a terrace about 20 feet wide. This terrace comes
down at the top of the heavily bedded conglomerate.