GREAT EUROPEAN CONVULSIONS. 



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Table of Disturbance in the European Area. 



No. 



Geological Period of the 

 Convulsions. 



I. (i and 2, E. deB.)) 

 Before the Old [ 

 Bed Sandstone . ) 

 II. (3, 4, 3, K de B.) 

 a. Before the Ro- 

 thetodteliegende . 



6. Before the Zech- 

 stein . 



c. Before the New ) 

 Red Sandstone . \ 



III. (6, E. deB.) Be- 

 fore the Lias 



IV. (7, E. de B.) Be- j 

 fore the Lower > 

 Greensand . . ) 



V. (8, E.deB.) Be- j 

 fore the uppermost > 

 Chalk beds . . ) 



VI. (9, E.deB.) Be- 

 fore all the Ter- 

 tiary rocks . 

 VII. (10, E. de B.) 

 Before the Nagel- 

 flue . 



VIII. (11, E. de B.) 

 Before some Gla- 

 cial beds 



IX. (12, E. de B.) 

 During the forma- 

 tion of other Pre- 

 Glacial beds 



Effects Noted. 



Anticlinal axes and 



great faults of the 



Slate system . 

 Immense disruptions 



and faults of the Coal 



system . 

 Immense dislocations 



and faults of Coal 



strata 

 Immense dislocations 



and faults 

 Mountain ridges of 



Zechstein, &c. 

 Abrupt and distorted 



strata of Oolitic sys- 

 tem 

 Abrupt elevations of 



Greensand and 



Lower Chalk . 



Elevations of Chalk / 

 and Greensand . I 



Detached ridges . . -| 



Newest Tertiaries up- 

 lifted 



Some Diluvial beds 

 covulsed . 



Localities of some of the 

 Phenomena. 



The Hunsdriick 

 Taunus. 



and 



Calvados, south-west bor- 

 der of the Vosges. 



Westphalia, Belgium. 



Vosges, and Black 



Forest. 

 Thuringerwald and Boh- 



merwald. 

 Mont Pilat, Cevennes 



(perhaps the Erzge- 



birge). 



Mont Viso, Devolny. 



Pyrenees, Northern Ap- 

 ennines, the Morea. 



Corsica, Sardinia, Au- 

 vergne. 



The range of the Wes- 

 tern Alps, Diablerets, 

 Mont Blanc. 



The range of the Eastern 

 Alps from the Valais 

 to Austria. 



Fig. 71. E. de Beaumont's System of Elevations. 



1. Snowdon. 



2. Ballons, Bocage. 



3. Crossfell. 



4. Pays Bas. 



5. Rhine. 



6. S.W. of Brittany. 



7. M. Pilas, &c. 



8. M. Viso. 



9. Pyrenaeo-Apennine. 



10. Corsica. 



11. W.Alps. 



12. Alps. 



