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river, some 40 or 50 miles farther to the northeast, and also in Nebraska 
at the Blackbird Hills. In this sandstone and in a gray clay beneath it, 
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Willows, &c., precisely as at Smoky Hill, Blackbird Hills and in New 
Jersey.” These leaves Dr. Newberry pronounces the same which mark 
the base of the Cretaceous in New Jersey, Nebraska and Kansas. These 
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The Cretaceous beds at this point were not seen by Dr. Newberry over- 
lying the sandstone, but on the Canadian, further southwest, as we might 
expect from the dip, he found this same sandstone overlaid by the same 
these Cretaceous beds,—a whitish marly limestone and shale (Nos. 2 and 
8 of the Nebraska Section of Meek and Hayden, the Sandstone being 
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hea Pitcheri (G. dilatata, var. Tucumcarit of Marcou). Thus we 
have the same stone which Mr. Marcou and Prof. Heer would make Afio- 
cene, overlaid by beds containing not only well known and admitted Cre- 
taceous fossils, but along with these the very Gryphea relied upon by Mr. 
Marcou for the establishment of the existence of the Jurassic. So if Mr. 
Marcou and Prof. Heer are right, the Miocene proves to be older than the 
Cretaceous and the Jurassic! and the unfortunate American geologists 
find to their confusion that the roof of their geological edifice was con- 
structed before the foundation was laid. 
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The facts elicited by Dr. N. seem however to sustain the Trias in New 
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accounts, is a paradise for the geologist, but very much the re- 
for other people. He hopes to exhibit his interesting hc calgiag to 
Seological friends in the United States by the end of October 
