CE as A Neath ie te at ol I oa ea a a ae katte 2 2 8 
“é - sae = SE, 
a5° 
F. B, Meek on the Carboniferous Rocks, &c. 157 
Art. XX.—Remarks on the Carboniferous and Cretaceous Rocks of 
Eastern Kansas and Nebraska, and their relations to those of the 
adjacent States, and other localities farther eastward ; in connec- 
tion with a review of a paper recently published on this sulject by 
M. Jules Marcou,' in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 
France: by F. B. MEEK. 
It is doubtless known to most of the readers of this Journal, 
that other explorers have long differed from Mr. Marcou,-in re- 
gard to several important points in the geology of the Western 
States and Territories. During the autumn of 1863, it seems that 
Owing it to be Carboniferous. (To this formation it had been 
Teferred by all others.)’ 
es Teconnoissance geologique du Nebraska; par M. Jules Marcou. Bulletin 
Ae France; xxi, 132-147, January, 1864. : . hich 
i is worthy of note here that Dr. Owen collected at this locality species w’ 
‘ ref i uberculalus, oductus Cora, Spirife er ger ’ 
P cata, and Orthis Umbraculum. (Report lowa, Wiscon., and Minn., 135.) The 
AM. Jour. Scr.—gzcoxp Series, Vou. XXXIX, No. 116—Marcu, 1865. 
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