THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



I. PEOCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



February 26. 1845. 



John Fowler, Esq. C. E., of Stockton-on-Tees, was elected a 

 Fellow of this Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Miocene Tertiary Strata of Maryland, Virginia, and 

 of North and South Carolina. By Charles Lyell, Esq., 

 M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



Between the hilly country of the United States and the Atlantic 

 there intervenes a low and nearly level region, occupied princi- 

 pally by beds of marl, clay, and sand of the cretaceous and tertiary 

 formations. Maclure, in 1817, in his " Geology of the United 

 States," laid down, with no small approach to accuracy, on a coloured 

 map, the general limits of this great plain, and of the granitic dis- 

 trict lying immediately to the westward. He also pointed out, that 

 at the junction of these great geological regions almost all the great 



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