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TABULAR VIEW OF FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA. [Ch. IX 



Fossiliferous Strata of Western Europe divided into Six Groups. 



1. Post-Pliocene 



Tertiary 



2. Cretaceous 



3. Oolitic - 



[ from the Post-Pliocene to the Eocene inclusive. 



- from the Maestricht Chalk to the Wealden inclusive. 



- from the Purbeck to the Lias inclusive. 

 ( including the Keuper, Muschelkalk, and Bunter Sand- 



" ( stein of the Germans. 

 Permian, Carbonifer- \ including Magnesian Limestone (Zechstein), Coal, Moun- 



ous, and Devonian C tain Limestone, and Old Red Sandstone. 

 Silurian and Cam- \ from the Upper Silurian to the oldest fossiliferous rocks 



brian - - - C inclusive. 



4. Triassic - 



5. 



But the following more detailed list of fossiliferous strata, divided into 

 thirty -five sections, will be required by the reader when he is studying 

 our descriptions of the sedimentary formations given in the next 18 

 chapters. 



TABULAE YIEW 



FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA, 



Shotting the Order of Superposition or Chronological Succession of 

 the principal Groups. 



Periods and Groups. 



I. POST-TERTIARY. 

 A. POST-PLIOCENE. 



British Examples. 



Foreign Equivalents and Synonyms. 

 I. Terrains Contemporaines, 



EI QUATERNAIRES. 



1. RECEXT. 



3. POST-PL.IOCEXE. 



Peat of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 with human remains. (Princi- 

 ples of Geology, ch. 45.) 

 ' Alluvial plains of the Thames, 

 Mersey, and Rother, with buried 

 ships, p. 120, and Principles, 

 ch. 48. 



Ancient raised beach of Brighton. 

 6. fig. 331, p. 287. 



Alluvium, gravel, brick-earth, 

 Ac. with fossil shells of living 

 species, but sometimes locally 

 extinct, and with bones of land 

 animals, partly of extinct spe- 

 cies ; no human remains. 



' Part of the Terrain qnaternaire 



of French authors. 

 Modern part of deltas of Rhine, 



Nile, Ganges, Mississippi, Ac. 

 Modern part of coral-reefs of Red 



Sea and Pacific. 

 Marine strata inclosing temple of 



Serapis at Puzzuoli. Principles, 



ch. 29. 

 Freshwater strata inclosing Tem- 

 ple in Cashmere. Ibid. 9th ed. 



p. 762. 



Part of Terrain quaternaire of 

 French authors. 



Volcanic tuff of Ischia; with liv- 

 ing species of marine shells 

 and without human remains or 

 works of art, p. 118. 



Loess of the Rhine, with recent 

 freshwater shells, and mam- 

 moth bones, p. 121. 



Newer part of boulder-formation 

 in Sweden, p. 129. Bluffs of 

 Mississippi, p. 121. 



3. 



H. TERTIARY. 

 B. PLIOCENE 



JV'EWER 

 PlilOCEXE, 



or 

 Pleistocene. 



Glacial drift or boulder-formation 

 of Norfolk, p. 132. of the Clyde 

 in Scotland, p. 130, of North 

 Wales, p. 136. Norwich Crag, 

 p. 154 — Cave deposits of Kirk- 

 dale, &c, with bones of extinct 

 and living quadrupeds, p. 160. 



II. TERRAINS TERTIAIRES. 



' Terrain qnaternaire, diluvium. 

 Terrains tertiaires superieurs, p. 



139. 

 Glacial drift of Northern Europe, 

 p. 128; and of Northern United 

 States, p. 139 ; and Alpine er- 

 ratics, p. 148. 

 Limestone of Girgenti, p. 159. 

 , Australian cave-breccias, p. 161. 



