Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains: And Part of the Sierra Nevada, Embracing Their Industrial Resources in Agriculture and Mining
These terraces play an imp01 taut part in modifying the cha1aeters of the soils upon the plains adjacent, and as a consequence affect the productive capacities of the lands as far as their direct in?uence extends. A peculiar and striking feature found m the soils of these plains 1s, that even to the base of the moun tains or their foot-hills the components of the earth are found as finely commin uted as at any point nea1 the centre, 01 upon the lower alluvial bottom' ln the vicinity of the settlement known as Banning ville.
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