64 GEOLOGY. 



Foster, P. Le N., Jun. Coal Mining in Italy. Rep, Miners\. Assoc. 

 Cornwall, for 1874 and part of 1875, pp. 40-45. 



Refers to Miocene coal deposits in the Tuscan Maremma. The 

 Basin of Monte Bamboli contains two seams of coal respectively 2 feet 

 and 4 fact thick. At the Casteani mines, in the Val di Bruno Basin, 

 one of the seams is nearly 20 feet thick, about half of which is coal of 

 first quality. The yearly output of these mines averages 20,000 tons. 

 [Paper noticed in Geological Eecord for 1874, p. 62.] C. L. N. F. 



Fuchs, Dr. C. W. C. Die Umgebung der Meran : ein Beitrag zur 

 Geologie der deutschen Alpen, [Geology of the neighbourhood of 

 Meran.] N. Jahrh. Heft viii. pp. 812-848 ; with chromo-litho- 

 graph map. 

 A geological description of the country around Meran and the Etsch 

 Valley in S. Tyrol. The form of the ground is first described, and then 

 the geological characters in detail. The crystalline silicated rocks of 

 the middle Alpine zone are represented by the gneiss and phyllite 

 formation. Then comes the Quartz-porphyry of the S. Alpine zone. 

 The oldest sedimentary rocks appear to be Permian ; and these are fol- 

 lowed by L. Triassic rocks. The Drift and Alluvium are also described. 

 The folding map is contoured, and on a scale of 1 : 36,000. P. "W. R. 



Fuchs, Th. Die Gliederung der Tertiarbildungen am Nordabhange 



der Apenninen von Ancona bis Bologna. [Tertiaries N. of the 



Apennines.] Sitz. h. Ale. Wiss. Wieu, matJi.-nat. CI., 1 Abth. Bd. 



Ixxi. pp. 163-178. Also Boll. B. Com. geol. Ital. pp. 245-259. 



Correlates these Tertiaries with those of other localities : thus the 



lowest, Monte Titano beds, are paralleled with the Schio, and lower 



beds of Malta (Oligocene or L. Miocene) ; the Molasse marls with the 



* Schlier ' or first Mediterranean stage. The Tortonian includes marls, 



sands, &c. representing the Baden claj^s (second Mediterranean stage). 



Unconformably to these succeed the sulphur and gypsum freshwater 



beds, which form the base of the Pliocene, and are compared to the 



Vienna Congeria-beds. Above come the well-known Pliocene blue 



marls with gasteropods, and then yellow sands with oysters, scallops, 



&c. E. B. T. 



. Der Eisenbahn-Einschnitt der Eranz- Josef-Bahn bei Eggen- 



burg. [Railway- section at Eggenburg.] Jahrh. Jc.-Jc. geol. 

 Beichs. xxv. Heft 1, pp. 17-19 (with a folding plate). 



A large-scale section shows the details of the beds opened up by the 

 railway. 



. Keue Brunnengrabungen in "VYien und Umgebung. [Well- 

 sections, Vienna.] Jahrb. k.-Jc. geol. Beichs. xxv. Heft 1, pp. 19- 

 62, and Verh. h.-h. geol. Beichs. pp. 35-36. 

 Of 119 well-sections here given only 1 is superficial, the others 

 reaching different members of the Vienna Tertiaries : the number of 

 faults precludes any certain calculation as to the depth of water-bearing 



