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TABULAR VIEW OF FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA. [Ch. IX. 



Periods and Groups 

 13. GAULT. 



British Examples. 



f Dark Blue Marl, Kent, p. 250. 

 J Folkestone Marl or Clay. 

 1 Blackdown Beds, green sand and 

 (. chert, Devonshire, p. 231. 



Lower Ceetaceous, oe Neocomian. 



14. 



LOWER 

 GREESSAND. 



. "WEALDEiV 



(Weald Clay and 

 Hastings Sand). 



F OOLITE. 



8 Upper Oolite. 



16. PURBECK BEDS. 



PORTLAND 

 BEDS. 



KIMMERIDGE 

 CLAY. 



19. CORAL-RAG. 



20. OXFORD CLAY. 



' Sand with green matter. Weald 

 of Kent and Sussex, p. 257- 



Limestone (Kentish Rag.) p. 257. 



Sands and clay with calcareous 

 concretions and chert. 



Atherfield, Isle of Wight, p. 257. 



(. Speeton Clay, Yorkshire. 



Foreign Equivalents and Synonyms. 

 r Gres vert supe>ieur > . „ t 

 J Glanconie crayeuse > y 

 1 Albien, D'Orbigny. 

 (. Lower Planer of Saxony 



Gres vert inKrieur. 

 NiSocomien supfirieur. 

 Aptien, D'Orbigny. 

 Hils-conglomerat of Germany. 



Hils-thon of Brunswick. 



I 



Clay with occasional bands of f 

 limestone.— Weald of Kent, Sur- 

 rey, and Sussex, p. 260. J Formation Waldienne. 



Sand with calcareous grit and 1 Nfiocomien inferieur. 

 clay, — Hastings, Cuckfield, ! 

 (. Sussex, p. 262. I 



jF. TeEEAIN'S JCRASSIQUES, 

 in part. 



Upper, Middle, and Lower Pnr- 

 beck, Dorsetshire and Wilts, 

 pp. 293-296. i 



Portland stone and Portland sand, 

 p. 300. 



Serpulitenkalk of Dunker, and 

 associated beds of the North 

 German Walderformation. 



Groupe Portlandien of Beudant. 



IKimmeridgien, D'Orbigny. 

 °r£tata i gryph6es vir s ules ' of 

 Argiles de Honfleur, E. de Beau- 

 mont et Dufresnoy. 



§§ Middle Oolite. 



( c 

 1° 



f Groupe corallien de Beudant. 

 Calcareous grit. I Cora tf ien D > ,bigny. 



oolitic limestone i ^ al „ a , Va '.» K A r ,°„S„ B 



! Calcaire a Nerinnees of Thnr- 



with corals, Oxfordshire, p. 302. j_ v ^^d fhirria 



1. Dark blue clay, Oxfordshire 

 and Midland counties, p. 304. 



2. Calcareous concretionary lime- 

 stone with shells, called Kel- 

 loway Rock, p. 34. 



1. Oxfordien sup6rieur, Thur- 

 mann. 



2. Oxfordien inferieur, or Callo- 

 vien, D'Orbigny. 



;§§ Lower Oolite. 



21. GREAT or BATH 

 OOLITE. 



23. 



INFERIOR 

 OOLITE. 



G. LIAS. 



23. 



LIAS. 



f 1. Cornbrash and Forest Marble, 

 I Wiltshire, p. 305. 

 i 2. Great Oolite and Stonesfield 

 Slate,— Bath, Stonesfield, pp. 

 t 305-309. 

 Fuller's Earth, near Bath.'p. 314. 

 Calcareous freestone, and yellow 

 sands of Cotteswold Hills, 

 Gloucestershire, p. 314. 

 Dundry Hill, near Bristol, pp. 

 L 102, 314. 



1. Upper Lias, p. 318. 



2. Marl-stone, ibid. 



3. Lower Lias, ibid. 



H. TRIAS. 



{Upper New Red Sandstone.) 



Bathonien of Omalius D'Hallov. 

 Grand Oolithe. 

 Calcaire de Caen. 



I Oolithe inftirieur. 



J Oolithe ferrugineux of Normandy. 



I Oolithe de Bayeux. 



! Bajocien of D'Orbigny. 



G. TERRAIN'S JuRASSIQUES, 

 in part. 



' 1. Etage sup^rieur du Lias, 

 Thirria. 

 Toarcien D'Orbigny. 



2. Lias moyen. 

 Liasien, D'Orbigny. 



3. Calcaire a gryphfie arquee. 

 Sinfmurien, D'Orbigny. 

 Coal-field near Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia, p. 30. 



ff. Nouveau Gres Rouge. 



24. UPPER TRIAS. 



25. MIDDLE TRIAS 



Jlusilulk.ilk. 

 26. LOWER TRIAS. 



( Saliferous and Gypseous sand- f 



stones and shales of Cheshire, Keuper of the Germans. 



pp. 333-336. \ Marnes iris£es of the French. 



! Bone-bed of Axmouth, Devon, p. I Saliferien, D'Orbigny. 

 L 336. I 



f f Mnschelkalk of the Germans.' 



I tro...; .•„ t? i=„j ] Calcaire concbyllen, Brongniart 



{ Wanting in England. ^ Calcaire a «ratites, Cordier. 



L (. Conchylien, D'Orbigny (in part). 



Red and white sandstone of Lan- C Bunter-Sandstein of the Germans. 



cashire and Cheshire, pp. 336, < Gres bigarrfi of the French. 



337. t Conchylien, D'Orbigny (in part). 



