. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--The Santa Clara Valley, Puente Hills and Los Angeles Oil Districts. NODULAR MIOCENE SANDSTONE AT LOS ANGELES. B. TYPICAL LOWER MIOCENE SANDSTONE AT LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES DISTRICT: CENTRAL FIELD. 167 the beds is particularly noticeable along Ocean View avenue west ofAlvarado street. Toward the east end of the field the sandstone isusually light to dark yellowish brown. Above the soft sandstone andsandy shale is a zone of fine-grained shale, several hundred feel inthickness. Some of this shale is hard and appears to be more or lesscalcareous.
. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--The Santa Clara Valley, Puente Hills and Los Angeles Oil Districts. NODULAR MIOCENE SANDSTONE AT LOS ANGELES. B. TYPICAL LOWER MIOCENE SANDSTONE AT LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES DISTRICT: CENTRAL FIELD. 167 the beds is particularly noticeable along Ocean View avenue west ofAlvarado street. Toward the east end of the field the sandstone isusually light to dark yellowish brown. Above the soft sandstone andsandy shale is a zone of fine-grained shale, several hundred feel inthickness. Some of this shale is hard and appears to be more or lesscalcareous. Veins of gypsum are abundant in this part of the forma-tion. Excellent exposures of this fine-grained shale are found onBeaudry avenue near Fourth street and in many road cuts bothnortheast and west of this locality. The uppermost beds of the Fernando exposed in Los Angeles liesouth of the central field, occupying the ridge on which the State Nor-mal School is located. These are soft clayey shales and heavy-bedded,fine, light-colored sandstone with some interstratified fossils listed on page 153 came from these beds in the region southo
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