Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1915 — Formation-of-California Coast [ARTICLE]

Formation-of-California Coast

The geologists tell us a strange story of the California coast. Ages ago its mountain peaks, mere reefs in a great expanse of am, rose to such a height that Santa Barbara channel was a vast valley over which roamed the elephant, camel, lion, saber-toothed tiger and other animals whose fossil remains are scattered over the country and some*of which are found the islands. Then the land again sank beneath the sea and again rose, and marine fossils are found in abundance along the shores and on the mountain tops many miles from the sea. Numerous gold banters have been surprised to find the skeletons df *h*leir*fc-*n elevation of 2,000 feed and two miles inland.