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TABULAR VIEW OF THE FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA. [Ch. IX. 



TABULAR VIEW OF THE FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA, 



SHOWING THE ORDER OF SUPERPOSITION OR CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OP THE PRIN- 

 CIPAL GROUPS, WITH REFERENCE TO THE PAGES WHERE THEY 

 ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK. 



1. 



BECENT. 



2. 

 POST- 

 PLIOCENE 



POST-TERTIARY. 



(Terrains contemporains et quatemaires.) 



EXAMPLES. 



British — Marine strata, with human remains 

 on coast of Cornwall (p. 109). 



Marine strata, with canoes, in the estuary of 

 the Clyde (p. 109). 

 Foreign — Danish peat (kitchen-middens), with 



. implements of bronze and stone (p. 109). 



Lacustrine mud, with remains of Swiss lake- 

 dwellings and implements of stone and 

 metal (p. 110). 



Marine strata inclosing Temple of Serapis, at 

 Puzzuoli (p. 108). 



Lacustrine strata of Cashmere (p. 108). 

 British — Loam of Brixham cave, with flint 

 knives and bones of extinct and living quad- 

 rupeds (p. 124). 



Valley gravels, or ancient alluvium of tbe 

 Thames and Ouse, with stone implements 

 (p. 115). 



Glacial drift of Scotland, with marine shells 

 (p. 153). 



Boulder formation of Norfolk cliffs (p. 162). 



Forest-bed of Norfolk cliffs, with bones of ele- 

 phant, &c. (p. 161). 



Glacial drift of Wales with marine fossil shells 

 nearly 1400 feet high, on Moel Tryfaen (p. 

 158). 

 Foreign — Ancient valley gravels of Amiens, with 

 flint implements and bones of extinct mam- 

 malia (p. 116). 



Loess of Rhine (pp. 119, 120). 



Ancient Nile-mud forming river-terraces (p. 

 118). 



Marine strata of Sardinia, 300 feet above sea- 

 level, with pottery and bones of extinct 

 quadrupeds (p. 121). 



Loam and breccia of Liege caverns, with hu- 

 man remains, and bones of extinct and re- 

 cent mammalia (p. 124). 



Australian cave-breccias, with bones of extinct 

 marsupials (p. 126). 



Glacial drift of Northern Europe (pp. 142-151). 



Post-glacial freshwater deposits of North Amer- 

 ica with remains of Mastodon (p. 166). 



Shells and 



mammalia, all 



of living 



species. 



Shells, recent, 



mammalia 



in part 



extinct. 



3. 



NEWER 

 PLIOCENE. 



4. 



OLDER 



PLIOCENE. 



TERTIARY. 



(Terrains tertiaires.) 



British — Norwich crag, marine, with 11 per cent, of the shells of 



extinct species, bones of Mastodon arvrenensis, &c. (p. 199). 



Chillesford beds, with marine shells, 9 per cent, extinct, and 



those of living species chiefly Arctic (p. 199). 

 Bridlington beds, marine Arctic fauna, commencement of gla- 

 cial epoch (p. 199). 

 Foreign — Tuffs of Ischia (p. 189). ) Marine shells of which 



Cone of Monte Somma (p. 190). >- 1 to 7 per cent, of the 



Eastern base of Mount Etna (p. 190). ) species extinct. 

 Calcareous and argillaceous strata and volcanic tuffs of Sicily, 



with shells from 10 to 30 per cent, of extinct species (p. 191). 

 Lacustrine strata cf Upper Val d'Arno, with Mastodon arver- 

 nensis, &c. (p. 196). 

 British — Bed Crag of Suffolk, marine shells, some of northern 

 forms, 40 per cent, of extinct species (pp. 200-205). 

 White or coralline crag of Suffolk, testacea less northern, 48 per 

 cent, of extinct species (p. 202). 

 Foreign — Upper and middle Antwerp crag, shells from 40 to 50 

 per cent, extinct, bones of cetacea numerous (p. 20T). 

 Subapennine marls and sands (p. 208). 

 Aralo-Caspian brackish-water formations (p. 211). 



