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line map of the Pliocene area in Yucatan/ and, he repeated Heilprin's 

 lists of fossils. 



No information is available for British Honduras, the Republic of 

 Honduras, or Nicaragua. 



The accompanying table presents the approximate stratigraphic 

 equivalence of the Tertiary marine formations in Central America, the 

 Antilles, the southeastern United States, and Europe. It will be 

 noticed that the table indicates two great stratigraphic bicaks, 

 namely, one in lower and middle Eocene time, the other in upper 

 Miocene time. 



Pre-Tertiary Formations in Central America and the West Indies. 



The foregoing discussion of the marine geologic formations of 

 Panama has included more or less consideration of all of those of 

 Tertiary age, concerning which we have knowledge, in the southern 

 United States, eastern Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 

 and a few notes have been made on northern South America. Since 

 the publication of Bailey Willis's Index to the stratigraphy of North 

 America,^ there has been no important addition to our knowledge of the 

 pre-Tertiary formations of the West Indies and Central America. As 

 tliis volume and the geologic map of North America it was prepared 

 to accompany are both easily accessible to geologists, and as a review 

 of the formations of those ages would be mostl}'^ repetition of informa- 

 tion contained in that work, I will make only a few general remarks. 



Rocks of supposed Archean age outcrop as follows: State of Oaxaca, 

 Mexico, granites and gneisses; Chiapas and Guatemala, granites, 

 talc, and cliloritic schists; Nicaragua and Honduras, fundamental 

 granite; Venezuela, granite from Puerto Cabcllo to Trinidad. Granitic 

 debris was found in Eocene sediments in Costa Rica and along Rio 

 Chagrcs in Panama by HiU. There is granite overlain by arkose 

 below the Upper Cretaceous near the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, and 

 marble and schists in the Isle of Pines. 



Paleozoic rocks of undertermined age occur in northern Sonora, 

 Mexico, and in Cliiapas; in Guatemala there are formations of both 

 pre-Carboniferous and Carboniferous age; Micrisch reports Devonian 

 in northern Nicaragua; and Paleozoic rocks apparently are present 

 in Honduras. The rocks, largely serpentine, forming the proto-axis 

 ofCul)a, and some of the formations in the Trinidad Mountains, 

 Cuba, may be of Paleozoic age, but tliere is no definite proof. 



Triassic deposits occur near Zacatecas, and perhaps at Miquehuana, 

 State of Tamaulipas, Mexico; the Todas Santos formation in Chiapas 

 and Guatemala is of Triassic age, and it appears, according to Micrisch, 



1 Sapper, ( arlos. La peo^rafia fisica j- la pcologia de la Feninsula de Yucatan, Afexko Instit. geolog, 

 Bol. No. 3, pp. 57, C pis., 1896. 

 « U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 71, 1912. 



