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TABLE XIII. 



Systematic Survey of the Palaeontological Formations, or the Fossttifewraa 

 Strata of the Earth's Crust. 



V. Quaternary 



Group, i 



or 



Anthropolithic 



(Anthropozoic) i 



groups of strata 



IV. Tertiary 



Group, 



or 



Caenolithic 



(Caenozoic) 



XIV. Recent ( 36. Present 



(Alluvium) ( 35. Recent 



XIII. Pleistocene ( 34. Post glacial 



(Diluvium) \ 33. Glacial 



iXII. Pliocene ( 32. Arvernian 



(New tertiary) \ 31. Sub-Appenine 



XI. Miocene i 30. Falunian 



(Middle tertiary) ( 29. Limburgian 



X. Eocene \ % gSSutta 



groups of strata \ (Old tertiary) J ^ London clay 



f IX. Cretaceous. 



III. Secondary 



Group, 



or 



Mesolithic 



(Mesozoic) 



groups of strata [ 



II. Primary 



Group, 



or 



Palaeoli »hic 



(Palaeozoic) 



groups of strata! 



I. Primordial 



Group, 



or 



Archilithic 



(Archizoic) 



groups of strata 



VIII. Jura 



VII. Trias 



VI. Permian j 

 (New red sand- 

 stone) 



n 



V. Carboniferous 

 (Coal) 



IV. Devonian 

 (Old red sand- 

 stone) 



III. Silurian 



II. Cambrian < 

 I. Laurentian ] 



25. White chalk 

 24. Green sand 

 23. Neocomian 

 22. Wealden 

 21. Portlandian 

 20. Oxfordian 

 19. Bath 

 18. Lias 

 17. Keuper 

 16. Muschelkalk 

 15. Bunter sand 



14. Mountain 

 limestone 

 (Zechstein) 



13. Red sandstone 



12. Carboniferous 

 sandstone 



11. Carboniferous 

 limestone 



10. Pilton 

 9. Ilfracombe 

 8. Linton 



7. Ludlow 

 6. Wenlock 

 5. Llandeilo 

 4. Potsdam 

 3. Longmynd 

 2. Labrador 

 1. Ottawa 



Upper alluvial 

 Lower alluvial 

 Upper diluvial 

 Lower diluvial 



Upper pliocene 

 Lower pliocene 

 Upper miocene 

 Lower miocene 

 Upper eocene 

 Middle eocene 

 Lower eocene 



Upper cretaceous 

 Middle cretaceous 

 Lower cretaceous 

 The Kentish Weald 

 Upper oolite 

 Middle oolite 

 Lower oolite 

 Lias formation 

 Upper trias 

 Middle trias 

 Lower trias 



Upper Permian 



Lower Permian 

 Upper carbonifer- 

 ous 

 Lower carbonifer- 

 ous 

 Upper Devonian 

 Middle Devonian 

 Lower Devonian 



Upper Silurian 

 Middle Silurian 

 Lower Silurian 

 Upper Cambrian 

 Lower Cambrian 

 Upper Laurentian 

 Lower Laurentian 



