THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD, 
OR, ORDER OF SUCCESSION OF THE STRATIFIED FORMATIONS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST. 
OT sssIII—I—— I 




| tions of the West. 
' India and adjacent 
Europe. | North America. regi ae 
Recent and Pre-historic—alluvium of rivers, lakes, and | Recent. Recent and 
ers seas; peat, shell-beds, &c. Youngerraised-beaches, kitchen- Post-tertiary 
ie middens, lake-dwellings, &c. Neolithic and Palsolithic alluvium. | 
GI A deposits. ; 
ts £ | Pleistocene (Diluvyium)—cave deposits, Loess, older valley- | Champlain—old terraces (ma- | Laterite. 
a ay grayels and raised beaches. Glacial deposits. rine, lacustrine, and fluviatile), 
| B | unstratified drifts, passing 
Om | down into glacial deposits. 
| Pliocene—Enelish Crag, Antwerp sands; Sicilian upraised | Pliocene—Sumter. Upperand middle | 
: marine beds; sub-apennine formation; Tegel; Deimothe- Sewalik beds. 
2 rium sand. Upper Manch- | 
8 hars of Sind. 
Z | Miocene—Diest sands, Faluns of Touraine, Upper Molasse; | Miocene— Yorktown, White | Lower Manch- 
3 Mayence and Vienna basins. River beds. hars of Sind. 
2 Oligocene—Upper fluvio-marine beds of Isle of Wight; Ba- | 
im salt plateaux of N.W. Hurope and Iceland; Rupelian and 
s Tongrian of Belgium, Calcaire de la Beauce, Grés de Fon- | 
zi tainebleau, Gypse lacustre, &. Brown coal series of | 
q Germany. | 
— | Hocene—Hampshire, London and Paris basins, Nummu- | Hocene—Alabama, Lignitie or | Nummuliticbeds, 
& |  litic Limestone, Flysch. Laramie, Wahsatch, Green| &c., of Cutch, | 
| | River, Bridger, Uintah forma-| Sind,SaltRange 
&e. | 

SECONDARY OR Mesozoic. 
Cretaceous. 
Danian—Chalk of Faxoe, Maestricht, &c. 
Senonian—Upper Chalk, Oberer Quadersandstein. 
| Turonian—Lower Chalk and Chalk-marl; Oberer and 
| Mittlerer Planer, Hippurite Limestone, Gosau beds. 
, Cenomanian—Upper Greensand, Unterer Pliner, Un- 
terer Quadersandstein. 
Gault—Gault clay; Albien, Aptien, Urgonien, Caprotina 
Limestone. 
Neocomian—Lower Greensand, Wealden beds. 
Jurassic. 
Upper or Portlandian—Purbeck and Portland groups. 
Middle or Oxfordian—Kimeridgian, Corallian, and 
Oxfordian. These and the Upper Oolites form the 
Oberer (Weisser) Jura or Malm. 
Lower or Bathonian—Calloyien, Bathonien et Bajocien. 
Mittlerer (Brauner) Jura or Dogger. 
Upper Lias—Toarcien. 
Middle Lias or Marlstone—Liasien. 
Lower Lias—Sinémurien. 
Triassic. 
Rhetic. 
Keuper. 
Muschelkalk. 
Bunter. 
Schwarzer Jura or 
Lias. 

Primary on PALaozoic. 
| Permian or Dyas—Maenesian Limestone, Zechstein. 
Marl-slate, Kupfer-scliiefer. Red Sandstones, Conglome- 
rates, Breccias.—Rothliegendes. 
Carboniferous. 
Millstone Grit—Flétzleerer Sandstein. 
Carboniferous Limestone Series—Caleaire Car- 
bonifére, Kohlenkalk, Kulm. 
Devonian and Old Red Sandstone. 
(Upper—Cypridina and. (Upper yellow and red 
4} Goniatites beds. ™ 2 | sandstones with Holo- 
Middle—Stringoceph- & 8 } ptychius. 
alus (Wifel) Limestone. 3's )Lower sandstones and 
Lower—Spirifer Sand- 6 = | flagstones with Cephal- 
stone, &c. aspis, Coccosteus, &e. 
Silurian—Transition or Greywacke. 
Ludlow group. 
Upper.; Wenlock ,, 
Upper Llandovery group. 
Devonian 
Lower Glandovery group. 
Caradoc and Bala iy 
Lower. Llandeilo i 
Avenig 
| Cembrion —Ermordial: 
Tremadoc slates. 
Upper ingula flags. . 
| . J Menevian group. 
Lower, Harlech and Longmynd group. 
Archean (Precambrian). 
Primitive schists, gneiss and other crystalline rocks. 
2 

Coal Measures—Terrain houiller, Steinkohlenformation. | 
Cretaceous— \uei58 
Fox Hills group. |S -25 = 
Pierre x ey 3 
Niobrara * go 2 
Benton = | BEES 
Dakotah 4, J5i254 E 
The Jurassic system has not yet 
been abundantly found in 
America, but its existence is 
known by the discovery of 
characteristic fossils. 
| Trias or Jura-Trias. 
= — s— 
Deccan “traps.” | 
Hipputite Lime- 
stone of Sind. 
Neocomian _ of 
Cutch and Salt 
Range. 
Jurassic of Cutch, 
Salt Range, 
N.W.Himalayas. 
Trias of N.W. | 
Himalayas and 
Salt Range. 

Permian or Permo-Carboni- 
|  ferous. 
Coal-Measures, Carboni- 
ferous. 
Sub-carboniferous, 
| Both the Deyonian and Old Red 
Sandstone types are deyeloped 
in the eastern regionsof Canada 
and the United States. 

Silurian. 
Oriskany formation. 
Lower Helderberg group. 
Salina group. 
| Niagara group. 
| _. (Cincinnati, Utica, and Tren- 
| ton groups. 
Chazy, Quebec, and Calci- 
ferous groups. 
Upper. 
Lower 
|(Potsdam formation. 
|(Acadian 
” 
Laurentian. | 
}onciss, &e. 
Godwana system 
i 
New Zealand. 
Recent. 
Pleistocene, 
with Moa bones 
and traces of 
man. Glacial de- 
posits. 
Pareora and Oa- 
maru formations. 
Waipura forma- 
tion. 
Rutaka forma- 
tion. 
Matai formation. 
?Kaikoura forma- 
tion. 
Vindhyan Sys- | ? Kakanui. ' 
tem. Waihao. 
[Carboniferous 
and Silurian in 
Salt Range.) 
Wanaka forma- 
tion. 

Transitionorsub- | 
metamorphic. | 

| ae 
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Gueiss, ke. 


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