Bulletin . 30 PETROLEUM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. runs some distance farther to the west,. and terminates at the Venturalliver. Lyon Caiion liesbetween the two arms, andfollows a fault separatingwhat appears to be a dupli-cation of tbe synclinal struc-ture. The general structuredown the township line sepa-rating 4-22 from 4^23 isshown in Figure 7, whichagain is verj^ highly general-ized. This synclinal structure is well developed at the eastern end of thePirie tract, and I can find no trace of the anticline which is reportedas extending across the center of the tract. While this is given by aver


Bulletin . 30 PETROLEUM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. runs some distance farther to the west,. and terminates at the Venturalliver. Lyon Caiion liesbetween the two arms, andfollows a fault separatingwhat appears to be a dupli-cation of tbe synclinal struc-ture. The general structuredown the township line sepa-rating 4-22 from 4^23 isshown in Figure 7, whichagain is verj^ highly general-ized. This synclinal structure is well developed at the eastern end of thePirie tract, and I can find no trace of the anticline which is reportedas extending across the center of the tract. While this is given by avery competent authority, I am inclined to think that this anticline hadbeen assumed to extend farther to the west than the facts warrant, prob-ably on the strength of examinations made farther east. Along San Antone Creek, near the northwest corner of this tract,all the exposed strata dip to the north. Along Oil Well Canon they dipto the northeast and southwest respectively, but the exposures on thetwo sides do not correspond, and I consider this canon as exposing afault line, the sout


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