IN THE PARIS BASIN. 

 RHEIMS CENTRE.— (Eighty-two miles N.E. of Paris.) 



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This is an excellent centre for the study of the Sables 

 Inferieurs — Brimont, Chalons, Chenay and Jonchery being 

 especially fossiliferous. • 



LAON CENTRE.— (Seventy-seven miles N.E. of Paris ) 



Localities. 



Laon 



La Fere 



Sinceny (or Sainceny) 



Aizy 



Ureal . 



Sables hif^rieurs. 



Sands of La Fere. 



Lignites. 



Sables Inferieurs. 



Lignites. 



The sections are important ; that of Aizy being the typical 

 exposure of the lower horizon of the Sands of the Soissonnais. 

 La F^re is also a classical locality ; whilst Sainceny affords 

 excellent outcrops* of the interesting series of deposits found 

 between the Licjnitesand the Nummulitic Sands of the Soissonnais. 



ETAMPES CENTRE.— (Thirty-one miles S. of Paris.) 



* Ante, p. lo. 



