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APPENDIX. 



Classification of the Tertiary Strata of 



MIOCENE. 



TJPPEE. 



Middle. 



LOWEE. 



Basin op 

 Maybnce and 



Wettekau. 



Beds with Hy- 

 drohia {Littori- 

 «eWa-liinestone). 



Basalt of Eck- 

 heim, kc. 



Corhicula-he&a, 



Flora of 



Kalten-Nord- 

 heira, Hessen- 

 briicken, Holz- 

 hausen near 

 Homberg. 



Salzhausen, IIolz- 

 haiisen near 

 Miinden, 

 ? Lignites of 

 Bonn-Neuwied. 



Between 



GlESSEN AND 



Cassel. 



Upper Basalt of 

 Vogelsberg 

 Rlicen, Ha- 

 biehtswald, &c. 



Upper lignites, 

 Basaltic tuff, 

 shales of Ha- 

 bielitswald. 



Lower Basalt. 



Lignites under 



the basalt 

 (Meissner, Ha- 

 bichtswald, &e.). 

 Clay of Gross- 

 Almerode. 



Limestone with 

 Ccrithium and 

 Helix. 



L^PPEK. 



OLiaO- , Middle. 

 CENE. ' 



Lower. 



EOCENE (?)■( 



Upper. 



Cerithium-ianA. 



Munzenberg and 

 Kockenberg, 

 Quartzite of 

 Miinden, &c. 



Quarlzose sand 

 with fragments 

 of quartzite and 

 chalk. Beds 

 with marine 

 fossils north of 

 Guntershausen. 



Cyrena-va&Tia. 



Riipelian clay 

 and marine 

 sand. 



Elsheim, Enk- 

 heim-Seekbach, 

 Offenbach, 

 Floersheira, &e. 



Bupeliau clay. 



Lignites of Kau- 

 fungen, Mcen- 

 cheberg, &c. 



