TERTIARY. 



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evidence of the plants is certainly favorable to this interpretation, as the 

 European Tiironian flora, although a very sparse one, presents some 

 marked points of agreement with portions of the flora under consideration." 



Table of Cretaceous Formations. 





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TERTIARY. 



The Tertiary deposits of Virginia represent both the Eocene and the 

 Miocene and also doubtfully the Pliocene in the Lafayette formation. All 

 of the Eocene and Miocene formations are very fossiliferous so that com- 

 parisons can be made with well-known faunas elsewhere while the correla- 

 tion of the Lafayette formation is based entirely on physical grounds. 



