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ous shale with many characteristic Onondaga fossils. Various 

 sections extending from New Jersey to Tennessee are described 

 by the author and the local faunules recorded on pages 23-53. 

 Tn these strata Kindle notes about ll, r > species, and of these 7 are 

 described as new. Some of the Onondaga guide fossils are : 

 Cystodictya gilberti, Stropheodonla patersoni, Spirifer acumi- 

 natus, Anoplotheca acutiplicata, Odontocephalus selenurus, and 

 0. cegeria. On the other hand many Marcellus forms appear 

 in these Onondaga shales, as Strop/mlosia truncata, Buchiola 

 halli, Pterochcenia fragilis, Actinopteria muricata, Styliolina 

 fissurella, Tentaculites gracilistriatus, Bactrites aciculum, and 

 Agoniatites expansus. The greatest number of long-ranging 

 species are, however, from the Oriskany, and if it were not that 

 these shales occur above this sandstone the author remarks that 

 " much paleontologic evidence could be adduced for considering 

 the fauna to be of^Oriskany age " (54). 



He says further : " The eastern shore line of the Onondaga sea 

 trended south westward across north-central New Jersey and 

 southeastern Pennsylvania. It probably traversed the States of 

 Maryland and Virginia near the present axis of the Blue Ridge. 

 From southwestern Virginia this shore line appears to have 

 trended westward not far from the Kentucky-Tennessee line as 

 far as the valley of Tennessee River, where it resumed its south- 

 erly trend" (65). c. s. 



4. Preliminary report on the geology of the coastal plain of 

 Georgia ; by Otto Veatch and Lloyd William Stephenson. 

 Bulletin No. 26, Geol. Surv. of Georgia, 466 pages, 30 plates, 

 1911. — This very valuable and detailed report is a result of the 

 cooperative work of the Geological Survey of Georgia and the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. The Assistant State Geologist, Mr. 

 Veatch, describes on pages 25 to 5*7 the physiography of the 

 state, and on pages 58 to 65 presents a general statement of the 

 geology of the coastal plain, a series of sedimentaries aggregat- 

 ing over 4500 feet in maximum thickness. The remainder of the 

 volume, by Doctor Stephenson, presents a great mass of desirable 

 detail regarding the physical character, thickness and fossils of 

 the seventeen formations composing the Lower and Upper Cre- 

 taceous and Cenozoic deposits of Georgia ; their relationship to 

 similar strata throughout the eastern Gulf area is also given. 

 The book is an invaluable guide to the coastal plain stratigraphy 

 not only of Georgia but as well of the entire eastern Gulf area. 



c. s. 



5. Classification of the geologic formations of the state of 

 New York ; by C. A. Hartnagel. Handbook 19, N. Y. State 

 Museum, 96 pages, 1912.— In this very handy booklet are briefly 

 defined the various geologic formations of the state of New 

 York, about 200 in number, the majority of which make up the 

 " standard Paleozoic section " of that state. There are of Pre- 

 cambrian 20 + terms, Paleozoic 153, Mesozoic 11, and Cenozoic 

 7. This is the third edition of Handbook 19 and all stratigraph- 



