This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...as at the locality just noted, one-half mile southwest of Newport. Professor Condon has collected a large number of fossils from the clay bed at Hinton Point, and reports that Macomaand other members of the same family are abundant. He regards the basal portion of this section as probably Pliocene. The only fossil ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...as at the locality just noted, one-half mile southwest of Newport. Professor Condon has collected a large number of fossils from the clay bed at Hinton Point, and reports that Macomaand other members of the same family are abundant. He regards the basal portion of this section as probably Pliocene. The only fossil collected from the Pleistocene north of Newport Point was at the foot of the bluff near the mouth of Nye Creek. James Storrs found in the sand fallen from the cliff a large tooth which Mr. F. A. Lucas, of the National Museum, has determined to be that of a mastodon, probably Mastodon americanux, and certainly of Pleistocene age. East of Newport, on the road to Toledo, the Pleistocene deposits form the surface of the approximately level country (peneplain) for about 2 miles, attaining an elevation of 350 feet above the sea level. They appear to have their greatest development close to the mouth of Yaqnina Bay; to the northward, aloug the coast beyond Cape Foulweather, they are uot well exposed. The character of the Pleistocene deposits about Yaquina Bay indicates that at least the lower portion of the deposit was beneath the sea, otherwise it could not include such abundant evidence of marine life and yet be free from indications of human accumulation. Concerning the overlying sands, containing the mastodon tooth and cones, the evidence is not so clear. Certainly land was close by. In the case of the gravels, especially those near the mouth of Nye Creek, their distribution suggests that they represent streams wandering over sand flats to the sea. We see the same sort of deposits at many places along sandy beaches to-day where small streams enter the sea. Going now to the Coos Bay region, we find similar deposits, but uot so well exposed as about Ya...
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