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Atlantic and Gulf Tertiaries of the United States. 



POST-PLIOCENE. 



Foreign Equivalents. 



PLIOCENE. 



FI.ORIDIAN. 



Deposits of the Caloosahat- 

 chie. 



Astian, in part ; Foresti's 

 horizon III of the Bolog- 

 nese sub- Apennines? 



MIOCENE. 



CAROLINIAN. 

 (Upper Allan 

 tic Miocene.) 



VIRGINIAN. 

 (Middle Allan 

 tic Miocene.) 



MARYLANDIAN. 

 (Lower Allan- 

 lie Miocene.) 



Deposils of Norlh and Soulh 

 Carolina ("Sumter" epoch 

 of Dana). Fossiliferous 

 beds of Rocky Bluff, Mana- 

 tee River, and of Philippi'sl 

 Creek and Little Sarasota 

 Inlet, Florida? 



Probably the equivalent of 

 a portion of Ihe Messin- 

 ian of Mayer (Sarmalian, 

 in parl, of Auslrian geol- 

 ogists), and of the Mio- 

 Pliocene of the Bolognese 

 sub-Apennines. 



Deposits of Virginia and the; Probably of the age of the 



newer group in Maryland 

 ("Yorktown" epoch, in 

 part, of Dana). Silex- 

 bearing "marl" of Ballast 

 Point; Orbitolile rock of 

 Hillsboro Bay and River 

 (Florida)? 



Second Mediterranean" 

 of Ihe Auslrian geolo- 

 gists, and of the faluns of 

 Touraine ; Caroni beds 

 of Trinidad; and Mio- 

 cene of Santo Domingo, 

 Jamaica and Cumana? 



Older Miocene deposits of Probably (or at least par- 

 Maryland, and possibly the tially) the equivalent of 

 lower beds in Virginia 

 ("Yorktown" epoch, in 

 part, of Dana). 



the " First Medilerra- 

 nean " of the Auslrian 

 geologisls, and of Ihe 

 faluns of Leognan and 

 Saucats. 



OLIGOCENE. 



ORBITOITIC. 



Strala characterized by spe- 

 cies of Orbitoides. Vicks- 

 burg beds, Florida Num- 

 mulitic beds, etc. 



Aquitanian. Deposits of 

 Crosara and Castel Gom- 

 berlo (Vicentin), Oligo- 

 cene of the Mayence 

 basin, sands of Fontaine- 

 bleau, lower limestone of 

 Malta, Fernando beds on 

 Trinidad, Antigua chert, 

 St. Bartholomew Oligo- 

 cene. 



JACKSONIAN. 



CLAIBORNIAN. 



BUHRSTONE. 



Jackson beds of Mississippi,! Barton Clay (Bartonian). 

 "White Limestone" of Sands of Beauchamp? 

 Alabama. 



EOCENE. 



Eo-LlGNITIC. 



Fossiliferous arenaceous de- 

 posit ofClaiborne, Ala., etc. 



Beds below the true Clai- 

 bornian on the Alabama 

 River, "Chalk Hills" of 

 the southern part of the 

 Slate, etc. " Siliceous Clai- 

 borne" (Hilgard) of Mis- 

 sissippi. Maryland Eocene, 

 in part? 



Lignite, sands, and clays sit- 

 uated at the base of the 

 Tertiary series in Alabama, 

 etc. Marlborough and 

 Piscataway beds of Mary- 

 land? Shark River de- 

 posils of New Jersey. 



Age of Ihe "Calcaire Gros- 

 sier" of France (Paris- 

 ian). 



Londonian? 



Thanetian? Bognorrock? 



