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172 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
GEOLOGIC SEQUENCE OF HAITI, BY TIPPENHAUER. 
Trove EQUIVALENTS TO 
AGE. Formation, MATERIAL. WESS. JAMAICAN SECTION: 
s R. T. Hinr. 
ee 
Lime, sand, chert, red | Feet. | Various coast 
Alluvium. iron earth, vegetal | 328 formations of 
humus, muck. Jamaica. 
Post Limestone and marl 
Tertiary. | Coast limestone. with masses of cor- | 65.60 | Soboruco. 
als and mollusks. 
à ; PAS e 
White or yellow marl E 
White marl. with some limestone | 295.20 Manchioneal, 
lumps. Pliocene. 
Chalk marl with red 
soil, Cobre. 
Compact limestone; Moneague and 
White limestone limestone breccia. Bowden. 
(Post-Pliocene) | 
= Vicksburg Thin chalk y strata 
Oligocene. with intercalated | 2,624 
white marly layers 
which often contain Montpelier. 
flints. Thinner sandy 
Strata of limestone 
Tertiary. mixed with clay. 
= _ ME 
Yellow clay and sand; 
N compact yellow lime- 
Yellow limestone C pm T. à : 
(Miocene) qu with yellow clay and 656 | Cambridge. 
Eocene. marl. Thin blue 
strata. 
Eocene conglom- | Green, brown, or dark 1 
erate; lir eius gray strata between Richmond bein 
strata and sand-| thin layers of fine- | 984 | Blue War 
stone; thinner] grained sandstone Series; UPI 
clay strata. (lignite). part. 
—— | mu | EB T er 
Yellow marl and clay ; Antillean, Cre 
yellow-brown lime- taceous, equiv 
Cretaceous stone; more blue 56 alent to lowe! 
Formation. limestone, all con- 6 part of Blue 
taining fossil Hip- Mountain 8€ 
purites. ries. 
P BE | 
Secondary. Metamorphosed clays; 
Metamorphosed sandstones, conglom- 
* k erates composed of| 3,280 
Conglomerate. syenite, granite, dio- 
rite, much broken, 
AI Y Pa 
Plutonic rocks os 
intruding into Syenite, porphyry, 
above, granite, and diorite. 
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