Download or read book Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 1897-1904, Vol. 1 written by California Academy Of Sciences and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 1897-1904, Vol. 1: Geology Santa Catalina Island, one of the group known as the Channel Islands, off the coast of southern California, lies about 20 miles south of San Pedro Hill, the nearest point on the mainland. At about the same distance south of Santa Catalina lies the island of San Clemente, the three eleva tions being nearly in a straight line. The general trend of the island is northwest by west. Its length is approximately twenty-one miles, with an aver age width of three miles, varying from half a mile at the isthmus to about eight miles in the widest part. The pre vailing winds are from west to southwest, and the waves exert their greatest force on the southwest face of the island.' They are, however, by no means inactive on the landward side, as is shown by the rapidly retreating shore-line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.