Excerpt from Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1898, Vol. 9The article Of which the following pages form an abstract is the result of field work conducted in the years 1881 to 1884 for the Northern Transcontinental Survey. And in 1895 and 1896 for the U. S. Geological Survey. The district particularly described is that which lies east Of the southern portion Of Puget sound, extending from the vicinity of Seattle to the foothills of mount Rainier. Most Of the localities are comprised within the area Of the Tacoma quadrangle Of the atlas Of the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.