THE 
(OU ar Or (ChEOLOGY 
MAY-JUNE, 1896. 
CLASSIFICATION OF MARINE TRIAS. 
CONTENTS 
Introduction : 
Geography of the Trias. 
Subdivisions of the Trias: 
Scythic Series. 
Brahmanic stage. 
Jakutic stage. 
Dinaric Series. 
Hydaspic stage. 
Anisic stage. 
Tirolic Series. 
Noric stage. 
Karnic stage. 
Faunal anomalies. 
Bajuvaric Series. 
Conclusion. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Tue Triassic system took its name from the peculiar three- 
fold development in the Germanic basin, in which at the base are 
beds of sandstone, in the middle are massive and shaly lime- 
stones, and at the top, clay shales and thin beds of quartzite. 
This basin was an interior sea, wholly cut off from the outside 
world during the greater part of its existence; but its sediments 
are so accessible to students of European stratigraphy that its 
local names have been used to designate subdivisions of the Trias 
all over the world. And ever since the extension of local names 
became customary, geologists have been sorely puzzled to know 
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