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THE TERTIARY GEOLOGY OF THE 
Fn.ni what lias preceded, the following table of the Atlantic and Gulf Tertiaries 
may be constructed : — 
Post-Pliocene. | 
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Pliocene. | ? 
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ICaroltnian. 
Deposits of North and South 
(Upper Atlantic 
[ Carolina (“Sunqiter” epoch 
. Miocene.) 
1 of Dana). 
'Virginian. 
;Deposits of Virginia, and the 
(Middle Atlantic 
j newer group in Maryland 
1 Miocene.) 
(“ Yorktown” epoch, in part, 
1 
of Dana). 
Miocene. 
Marylandian. 
(Lower Atlantic! 
Miocene.) 
Older Miocene deposits of 
Maryland, and possibly^ the 
lower beds in Virginia 
(“Yorktown” epoch, in 
part, of Dana). 
Foreign Equivalents. 
Diestian ? 
Probably of the age of the 
“ Second Mediterranean ” of 
the Austrian geologists, and 
of the faluns of Touraine; 
Caroni beds of Trinidad; 
and Miocene of San Dom- 
ingo, Jamaica and Curaana? 
Probably (or at least partially) 
the equivalent of the “ First 
Mediterranean ” of the Aus- 
trian geologists, and of the 
faluns of Leognan and 
Saucats. 
1 
Dlioocene. Orbitoitic. 
Jacksonian. 
Cl-AIIIOBNIAN. 
Buubstone. 
Eocene. 
Eo-Liqnitic. 
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Strata characterized by^ species 
of Orhitoides. Vicksburg, 
beds, Florida nummuliticj 
beds, etc. 
Aquitanian. Deposits of CrO- 
sara and Castel Goraberto 
(Vicentin), Oligoccne of the 
Mayence basin, sands of 
Fontainebleau, lower lime- 
stone of Malta, Fernando 
beds on Trinidad, Antigua, 
Chert, St. Bartholomew 
Oligocene. 
Jackson beds of Mississippi. Barton Clay (Bartonian). 
“ White Limestone ” of Ala- Sands of Beauchanqi? 
I bama. 
jFossiliferous arenaceous de- 
posit of Claiborne, Ala., etc. 
Beds below the true Clai- 
bornian on the Alabama 
River, “Chalk Hills ” of the 
southern part of the State' 
etc. “ Siliceous Claiborne ” 
(Hilgard) of Mississippi. 
Maryland Eocene, in part? 
Lignite, sands and clay-s situ- 
ated at the base of the 
Age of the “ Calcaire Gros- 
sier ” of France (Parisian). 
Londonian ? 
Thanetian ? Bognor rock ? 
Tertiary 'series in Alabama, 
etc. Marlborough and Pis- 
cataway beds of Maryland? 
Shark River deposits of New 
J ersey. 
' ovrsey. 
coJJ' AtT” foimations in this State follow in a general parallel 
upon which Th ° ° ” Cretaceous deposits (Majstrichtian and Sonnonian), 
u,K,„ winch they can he shown i„ some places to lie conformably, or very nearly so! 
