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Lower — Lignitic 



1895.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 91 



Alabama section : 9 — 



Feet. 

 'Upper — ( Coral Limestone, Vicksburg ? . .150 



White Limestone Vicksburg (Orbitoidal) 140 



(_ Jackson 60 



Middle I ^fT 06 U °if 



£> <[ ( Buhrstone , . . 300 



' Hatcbetigbee 175 



Woods Bluff 80-85 



Bells Landing 140 



{ Nanafalia 200 



Mathews Landing, Naheola. . 130-150 



Black Blutf 1 . 100 



Midway 25 



In the American Journal of Science Mr. Harris presents a gen- 

 eral section of the Eocene series of the Southern States. This is 

 based to a considerable extent on the Alabama section, but modified 

 to include and harmonize with his own observations. 10 This section 

 is: — 



Stages. . Sub -stages. 



t Coral Limestone 

 Vicksburg -j Vicksburg Beds 

 ( Red Blurt* Beds 



T , ( Moody's Branch Beds 



jacKson | Mark>8 MUls Red Bedg 



Claiborne j ™> Eluff ^ arls ( Mk ) 

 ( Claiborne sand 



Lower { Ostrea sellseformis Beds 



3 { Claiborne ] if ^ Beds 

 ^ Buhrstone 



Hatchetigbee Beds 



Wood's Bluff Beds 



CO 



'u 

 02 



Lignitic 



C Bell's Landing Beds 

 Bell's Landing ) Gregg's Landing Beds 

 (_ Nanafalia Beds 



C Mathew's Landing Mai*l 

 Midway 1 Black Bluff Clays 



(Midway Clay atid Limestone 



The work of the Texas survey shows the Eocene Tertiary of that 

 portion of the State lying east of the Brazos River to have a sec- 

 tion of: — 



9 Bulletin 43, U. S. G. S., by E. A. Smith and L. C. Johnson, p. 18. 

 10 Harris. Am. J. of Sc, Vol. XL VII, April, 1894, p. 304. 



