464 ^t'f>f' Bucklatid on the Stntciure of the Alps, [June-, 



It is not iniplie<l that the above five subdivisional parts of the Tertiary Formations 

 nuuntain the same relative order of succession in England and on the Continent ; most 

 of them probably alternate, but they are all more recent than the chalk of England, 

 France, and Italy. 



SECONDARY FORMATIONS. 



Chalk. 



Lftrge proportion of the S£ of England. 



Oreen Sand, 

 liarge proportion of the SE of England. 



Oolite Formation. 



Coral rag, loose and rubly. 



Compact beds of Com. Brush. 

 Buckingham marble. Yeovil marble. 

 Bath and Cotswold oolite, 

 lias, 



oVieto Red Sandstone and Red Marl. 

 Great formation of salt and gypsum. 



Magneiian Limestone, 



Chalk, 



Craie of the French, encircling and form- 

 ing the base of tlie Basin of Paris. 



Younger Alpine limestone of the Euga- 

 ncan Hills and Vicentine Hills, in It^y. 



Fort near Ijunenburg, close to tl\e town 

 on the side of Hamburg. 



Castle of Cracow, in Poland. 



Craie Inferieure of the French, 



Quader Sandstein and Plsner Kalk, of 



Werner. 

 Younger Alpine limestone of Savoy, form- 

 ing the summit of the High Ridge from 

 Mount Varens in the Vale of the Arve 

 to Diableret, in the Rlione Valley. 



Jura Limestone {properly so called.) 



Younger Alpine limestone of Savoy, 



Switzerland, and Tyrol. 

 Muschel Kalk, of Werner. 

 Coral Rag. Same organic remains in a 



compact matrix, and used for marble at 



Roche, near Vevey. 

 Compact limestone of Schaffhausen, 



lying above the Jura Oolite. 

 Saltzburgh marble. Conte marble, of 



France. 

 Oolite of Jura, and Valley of the 



Adige. 

 Pierre a gryphite of France and Jura, 



full of the (iryphea Arcuata of Lamark. 

 Muschel Kalk, of Werner. 



Banter Sandstone and Roth Thon of 

 JVtrner. 



First and second salt, and gypsum form»> 

 tion of Werner. 



Grey wacke of Brocchi in his "\''al di Fassa, 

 of Ployer in his map of Tyrol, and 

 of Von Buch and Charpentier in their 

 accounts of the salt formations of the 

 Alps. 



Elder Alpine Limestone. HocTigebirgx 



Kalk Stein of Ebtl, first Flodz Lime. 



atone of IVerner^ divisible into 

 Zechstein (Calcaire a Gryphite of Voigt 



and Schlotheim, and containing Gry- 



phites aculcatus.) 

 Asche. 



Rouh wacke. <» 



Holcn Kalk. 

 R(^en stein. 

 Stinkstein. 

 Kupferschicfer, or bituminous marl slate^ 



with fish. 

 These subdivisions arc well known in the 



Thuringer-vald, and are occasionally 



interspersed with salt and gypsum. 



