HIGHE, (CIAL AES, ZAINIO! IBXCOI HC SVL OCKGS, SI ING» 739 
Bearing in mind the geographic relations of Cliff-Freiburg- 
Chablais exotic belt we can, in accordance with the above view, 
reconstruct in some measure the geographic conditions of this 
part of the world in early and middle Mesozoic times. Accord- 
ing to this view there extended in Jura-Trias times between the 
present site of the Alps and the Jural mountains opposite a 
Vindelicic sea in which East Alpine life and conditions prevailed. 
A comparison of the exotic (Vindelicic) series with the Helvetian 
and Jurassic faunas shows beyond doubt that the cliff series 
represent deposits in comparatively deep water.* We may, there- 
fore, assume that the sea of this region was at that time char- 
acterized along the Vindelicic area by a deeper sea. If the 
passage from the more shallow Helvetian to the deeper Vin- 
delicic sea was not too abrupt we might therefore expect to find 
indications of transition in the outermost (northernmost) chains 
of the Alps. Hence the fact pointed out by Stutz that along the 
Axenstrasse on the Lake of Lucerne the outer chains contain 
certain subordinate beds of more Alpine facies ( Diphya-beds, 
“Stramberg beds’”—strata with Terebratula janitor) has a 
peculianuimterest, Andythe tact that icertaimvot the elit strata 
have been shown to present facial similarity to others occurring 
on the north side of the Vindelicic region would further bear out 
this conception by showing a relationship between the cliff series 
and strata to the north. Id. (C, OwisRIDANG,, 
* As evidenced, for example, by the presence of Aptychus limestone, Globigerina 
shales, Radiolarian chert and associated red clay in the cliffs. 
