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the writer holds to be Carboniferous, and the representatives in the 

 Pyrenees of the statuary marbles of the Apuan Alps. [See Geological 

 Becord for 1874, pp. 65-78.] G. A. L. 



Gastaldi, Prof. B. Sui fossili del calcare dolomitico del Chaberton 



(Alpi Cozie) studiati da G. Michelotti. [Dolomitic Limestone of 



Chaberton, &c.] Boll. R. Com. geol. Ital. pp. 816-355, plate. 



Retracts his opinion on the age of the Carrara limestone. Cites a 



letter from Michelotti respecting fossils in the dolomitic limestone of 



Chaberton, supposing this to be Lower Palaeozoic ; the fossils, which 



are somewhat obscure, are here figured. E. E. T. 



Geinitz, Eugen. Ueber neue Aufschliisse im Brandschiefer der 



unteren Dyas von AVeissig bei Pillnitz in Sachsen, [New sections 



of the Lower Perm^'an Bituminous Schists of Weissig. near Pillnitz, 



in Saxony.] N. JaJirh. Heft i. pp. 1-14, with plate of fossils. 



A shaft has been carried in search of coal to a depth of more than 



130 ells [284 feet]. A section is given of that part of the shaft which 



passed through the bituminous schists. These have yielded many fish 



remains and other fossils, which are described elsewhere (see pos-t, 



under Paleontology). F. W. B. 



Giesler, E. Das oolithiscbe Eisensteinvorkommen in Deutsch-Loth- 

 ringcn. [The Oolitic Iron-ores of Geimun Lorraine.] Zcitsch. 

 Benj-., Butt. Salhienw. vol. xxiii. pt. 1, pp. 9-41. Abstract in 

 Froc. hist. Civ. Eng. vol. xlii. p. 358. 

 These ores occur in the limestones, at the top of the Upper Lias or 

 bottom of the Inferior Oolite, over a length of country from N. to S. 

 about 32 miles, from the S. frontier of Luxemburg, near Thionville, to 

 the Moselle valley S. of Metz. The thickness of the formation dimin- 

 ishes from 82 feet en the N. to 10 feet on the S., and with it that of 

 the associated beds of iron-ore, there being 4 workable beds, the 

 principal one from 13 to 16 feet thick, besides several smaller beds in 

 the JS". part of the district, while in the centre there are only 2 beds, 

 about 7 feet together ; in the extreme S. only the lower bed, with an un- 

 workable thickness of 3 feet, is known. The beds of ore are made of 

 close alternations of limonite with bands of limestone and mail. The 

 ore is known by the name of Minette, and is made up of oolitic grains 

 varying in the proportion of iron from 30 to 40 p. c, with considerable 

 variation in the amount of phosphorus, from 0*5 to 2 p. c. This part 

 of the subject is illustrated by a table containing the results of 156 

 analyses. H. B. 



Gintl, Dr. H. Das Petroleum- und Ozokerit-Territorium Galiziens. 

 [The Petroleum and Ozokerite district of Galicia.] Mitth. Tc.-Jc. 

 geogr. Ges. Wien, Bd. xviii. pp. 230-232. 



Girard, J. Les soulevements et depressions du sol sur les cotes de 

 la Fiance. [Rising and sinking of the Land on the Coasts of 

 France.] Bull. &oc. Geogr. Paris, ser. 6, t. x. pp. 225. 



