Reviews — A. Heilprhi — United States Tertiary Geology. 231 



Post- 

 Pliocene. 







Foreign EauivALENTS. 



Pliocene. 



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Carolinian 



(Upper Atlantic 



Miocene. ) 



Deposits of North and South 

 Carolina ('• Sumpter " epoch 

 of Dana). 



Diestian ? 



Miocene, 



Vii'ginian 



(Middle Atlantic 



Miocene.) 



Deposits of Virginia, and the 

 newer group in Maryland 

 ('•York town" epoch, in part, 

 of Dana). 



Probably of the age of the 

 "Second Mediterranean" of 

 the Austrian geologists, and of 

 the faluns of Touraine ; Caroni 

 beds of Trinidad ; and Miocene 

 of San Domingo, Jamaica, and 

 Cumana ? 





Marylandian 



(Lower Atlantic 



Miocene.) 



Older Miocene deposits of 

 Maryland, and possibly the 

 lower beds in Virginia 

 (" Yorktowu ' ' epoch, in 

 part, of Dana). 



Probably (or at least partially) 

 the equivalent of the " First 

 Mediterranean" of the Aus- 

 trian geologists and of the 

 faluns of Leognan and Saucats. 



Oligocene. 



Orbitoitic. 



Strata characterized by species 

 of Orbitoides. Vicksburg 

 beds, Florida nummulitic 

 beds, etc. 



Aquitanian. Deposits of Crosara 

 and Castel Gomberto (Vicen- 

 tin), Oligocene of the Mayence 

 Basin, sands of Fontainebleau, 

 lower limestone of Malta, 

 Fernando beds on Trinidad, 

 Antigua, Chert, St. Bartholo- 

 mew Oligocene. 





Jacksonian. 



Jackson beds of Mississippi. 

 '•AVhite Limestone" of 

 Alabama. 



Barton Clay (Bartonian) . Sands 

 of Beauchamp P 





Claibornian. 



FossiliferoQS arenaceous de- 

 posit of Claiborne, Ala., etc. 



Age of the " Calcaire Grossier " 

 of France (Parisian). 





Buhrstone. 



Beds below the true Claibor- 

 nian on the Alabama River, 

 "Chalk Hills" of the 

 southern part of the State, 

 etc. " Siliceous Claiborne " 

 (Hilgard) of Mississippi. 

 Maryland Eocene, in part ? 



Londonian ? 



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Eo-Lignitic. 



Lignite, sands and clays situ- 

 ated at the base of the 

 Tertiary Series in Alabama, 

 etc. Marlborough and Pis- 

 cataway beds of Maryland ? 

 Shark iiiver deposits of New 

 Jersey. 



Thanetian ? Bognor rock ? 



