﻿TABULAR VIEW OF EQUIVALENT PORTIONS OF THE UPPER TERT1AH Y SI- HIES OF ACCUMULATIONS. 



i St. George's Channel A 



Drift gravel, with chalk flints and 

 sea shells. 



High-level marine sands and shells 

 of Snowdon range. — N.B. The 

 depression of the land was much 

 greater here than in the W. of Irish 

 Channel. 



" Diluvium" of Gumming, 11 Loam 



of hill-sides and valleys." 

 " Blue-brown marls," or " older al- 

 luvia," with Megaceros. 

 Former terrestrial surface. 



t of Cardigan Bin .Yates.. 



-J. "Sands, gravels, and coiigloiiicr; 

 Red-brown marine marls." "1! 

 der-elay" of dimming. 

 Marine fauna— Vide Forbes i 



Cumming. 

 Freshwater marls of Central 



equivalents nt 

 ie beds of Iris! 



Pleistocene i 

 and Welsh coasts. Marine fau 

 like that of the Carentau beds. 



Cppermnst 



ridgewater levels, &c. 



Lower angular local gravel of Brest - 

 wich. (Geol.Proc. vol.ii. p. 404.; 

 Local angular gravel of Murcbison 



i. Broad alluvia of Severn ai d tri- 

 butaries. Recent freshwater spe- 

 cies, with Wjij>r>jH>f(nuux, Bo.:, &c. 



Lower St. Colomb 



Wot uf i-nglish Oi;nnieI - 



, Latest elevation, 8-10 feet on open 

 coasts. Torbay, Falmouth, Co- 

 tentiu. Cliannel Islands. 

 a. Upper portion of the estuary de- 

 posits of Exe, at Alphinuton! and 

 of the Cornish valleys, Fal, Pen- 



. Highest level of marine shingle. 

 Lizard, Falmouth, St. Austle Bay, 

 Prawle, Plymouth, Guernsey, Jer- 



n. Marine beds in valleys, with re- 

 mains of Cetacea. 



Pentnan sections. Par Bay, Fal- 

 mouth valley, Bovey valley, Exe. 



1 Older peat bogs and forests, prin- 

 cipally Pine. Bovey?; or at pre- 

 sent often submerged. 



Lowest marine beds— Falmouth, 

 ( 'onfall /insaim, Plymouth, Dart- 

 mouth,Torbay,Guerasey,aud Jer- 

 sey, neighbourhood of Carentau 

 !>• shout- 



tin valleys. 

 5. Channel area thy 1 



Must Ml' Ei,^h Channel An a. 



Terrestrial surface. 



Thick rubbly beds of chalk. u itli an- 

 gular flints. "Elephant bed." 

 "The flints have been long exposed 

 to the action of the atmosphere" 

 (Mantell). Broad alluvia of the 

 Arun with Elephant remains. Di- 

 luvium of Rozet.inthcBoulomiais, 



a. Valley of the Somme, &c, with 



Tourbes du Diluvium of Rozet, and 



of Ravin for the Cam-lie. 

 Bournemouth, Avon, Wilts. 



'• Ancient sand and shingle" bed of 

 Mantell, at Kottiugdean, contain 

 tog pebbles, and rounded block 

 of granite, porphyry, slate, am 

 i.ala o/.oic limestone.' Equus. 



Sea-shells. 



i. Wide alluvia of Thames at Rev- 

 and Brcntl'oi-d ( Morris). Medwav 



Mole, Wey. Lower marls of New- 



. hem-nth dutt. Beascn; 



1 S.iiiolk.-R.C. Tavlor, Rose. 



Upper drift. Sands and gravel 



y. Lowestmaniit- beds. with l.ivnlws 

 in Situ. Bunion ; I'hillcstonl and 

 Iken (Prestwieh). 

 A. Trm-sinal conditions 



.'vVelho 



Continental equivalents. 



(i. T|jc<'oiiriiH-iiT.il >-<|Uiv:tl.-n ts oi'this 

 period are ciiihuioh. from i In- coasi 

 of Denmark to that of Bi-l-iuui. 



0. Ditto. 



Unit, generally spread over X. Eu- 

 rope as low as .'ill N, Lat. i Berg- 



TLnm - int.. the I'rag - 



but the volume . l' " iter 



|.,e.\. .? •• mlil.lx aeeiiilllll.ltioli- of ; 



loeal materials, nor watenvon " 

 of Phillips, with mamuialiau 



BrnllinL-toii Crag (Forbes). 



file area of the Noil hem noil 

 the Yorkshire coast was sea 

 period of the red and coralline 



< along bed of present 



