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FORMATIONS ABOVE THE CHALK. 



knowledge of their geological relations. As this table will materially elu- 

 cidate the nature of the tertiary deposits of Sussex, and has hitherto ap- 

 peared only in a periodical work*, we shall subjoin that part of it which 

 relates to the present subject. 



A Tabular Arrangement of the Rocks that occur i?i England, with their Equivalents 

 in certain Districts on the Continent. By the Rev. Wm. Buckland, Professor of 

 Mineralogy and Geology in the University of Oxford, F.R.S. ^c. 



ENGLISH FORMATIONS. 



Alluvium t- 

 Effect of causes nolo in action. 

 Mud of rivers, deltas, gravel of torrents. 

 Diluvium. 

 The effect of causes no longer in existence. 

 Gravel and rolled blocks both on hills and 

 in vallies, not produced by any causes now in 

 action. 



Gravel of the vallies of the Thames, Se- 

 vern, and Humber. 



Blocks of Cumberland granite in the plain 

 of Shropshire, near Bridgenorth; and of 

 Galway granite at Shalk, on the S.W. of 

 Carlisle in Cumberland. 



FORMATIONS ON THE CONTINENT. 



Alluvium. 



Effect (ifcaitses now in action. 



Same as in England, but on a larger scale. 



Diluvium. 



The effect ofcames no longer in existence. 



Same as in England. 



Superficial gravel covering the regular ter- 

 tiary strata of the vallies of the Po, the Danube, 

 and Geneva. 



Granite blocks on the Jura, above Neuf- 

 chatel, and on the Saleve mountain, near Ge- 



Tertiary Formations. 



London and Hampshire basins. 



1. Freshwater Limestone, 

 Headen Cliff, Isle of Wight. 



Basin of Paris, vallies of the Po, the Da- 

 nube, and Switzerland. 



1. Calcaire SEau Douce, 

 Basin of Paris; Frienisberg, near Bernis; 

 St. Sapphorin, near Vevey; Horgen, near Zu- 

 rich; Locle on the Jura; valley of the Rhine, 

 three miles N.E. of Basle. These are prin- 

 cipally composed of marl stone, and contain 

 beds of coal with freshwater shells intermixed. 

 Oeningen, near Schaff hausen, with fresh water 

 fish. 



* Annals of Philosophy, June, 1821. p. 462. 



t In this table Professor Buckland commences with the uppermost or newest deposits, a 

 method directly the reverse of that which has been adopted in the present volume. 



