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inevitably fall the burden of constructing a time-scale to fit the many events 

 recorded in the huge complex of the Western Geosynclinal Belt; for those 

 geologists a general stratigraphic scheme, though it may contain many mistakes 

 of correlation, may be better than none at all. For convenience in printing, the 

 table is somewhat more hard-and-fast in its statements than are the partial 

 tables appended to the various chapters of description. All of them should be 

 checked, for the individual details, by the text of the corresponding chapters. 



