OF THE PARIS BASIN. 



Fig. A,.-~Section at Cuise-la-Motte. 



ft. in. 



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r Argillaceous vegetable earth with 

 1 iDlocks of nummulitic limestone 

 \ (pierre a Hards) Lower Calcaire 

 I Grossier . . • 3ft. to 4 



8 Dark-green glauconitic sand . 4 

 Passage. 



Orange-coloured clayey sand, 

 7 I glauconitic, with gypseous 



threads irregularly dispersed . 3 



Brown to yellow compact sand, 

 with glauconitic grains, un- 

 fossiliferous, or nearly so . 14 



C Cross stratified, brownish sands, 

 I full of fossils, with small lenticu- 

 "1 lar patches of grey unfossiliferous 

 I sand . . . • • 



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I Yellowish grey, fine sand, without 

 * -| fossils . . . •. . • - ° 



I Cross stratified, brown, fossdifer- 

 •^ I ous sands . . • • 3 o 



.rStratified yellowish brown sandy 

 clay, with greenish grey mottled 

 • sandy bands, compact, _ iron 

 '^. stained in part, thin (3-inch) 

 I shell bed, full of Tiirritella near 

 [^ the centre ; few fossils 



rGrev stratified coarse sand=, with 

 glauconitic grains; practically 

 ' unfossiliferous. Base not seen ; 

 I but the section is 15 feet deeper 

 (^ in places ; obscured by talus . 



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G.F.H. and H.W.B. (1890). 



