THE EOSSILIEEROUS STRATA. 
13S 
MIOCENE. 
EOCENE. 
5. 
UPPER 
MIOCENE. 
Majority of the 
shells extinct. 
6 . 
LOWER 
MIOCENE. 
Nearly all the 
shells extinct. 
T. 
UPPER 
EOCENE. 
8 . 
MIDDLE 
EOCENE. 
9. 
LOWER 
EOCENE. 
EXAMPLES. 
' British —WaDtin^. 
Foreign —Faluns of Touraine (p. 211). 
Fahtiis, proper, of Bordeaux (p. 214). 
Fresh-water strata of Gers (p. 215). 
Swiss (Eningeu beds, rich in plants and insects (pp. 
215-223). 
Marine Molasse, Switzerland (p. 223). 
Bolderberg beds of Belgium (p. 224). 
Vienna basin (p. 224). 
Beds of the Superga, near Turin (p. 22G). 
Deposit at Pikerme, near Athens (p. 226). 
Strata of the Siwalik hills, India (p. 226). 
Marine strata of the Atlantic border in the United 
States (p. 22T). 
Volcanic tuff and limestone of Madeira, the Cana¬ 
ries, and the Azores (Chap. XXX.). 
' — Hempstead beds, marine and fresh-water 
strata (p. 244). 
Lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey (p. 245). 
Isle of Mull leaf-bed, volcanic tuff (p. 247). 
Foreign —Calcaire de la Beauce, etc. (p. 230). 
Gres de Fontainebleau (p. 230). 
Lacustrine strata of the Limagne d’Auvergne, and 
the Cantal (p. 233). 
Mayence basin (p. 242). 
Radaboj beds of Croatia (p. 242). 
Brown coal of Germany (p. 244). 
Lower molasse of Switzerland, fresh-water and 
brackish (pp. 235-239). 
Rupelmonde, Kleynspawen, and Tongrian beds of 
Belgium (pp. 24*1, 242). 
Nebraska beds. United States (p. 248). 
Lower Miocene beds of Italy (p. 244). 
Miocene flora of North Greenland (p. 239). 
' British —Bembridge fluvio-marine strata (p. 252). 
Osborne or St. Helen’s series (p. 255). 
Headon series, with marine and fresh-water shells 
(p. 255). 
Barton sands and clays (p. 258). 
jPom'f/n—Gypsum of Montmartre, fresh-water with 
Palceotherium (p. 270). 
Calcaire silicieux, or Travertin inferieur (p. 273). 
Gres de Beauchamp, or Sables moyens (p. 273). 
British —Bracklesham beds and Bagshot sands (p. 
259). 
White clays of Alum Bay and Bournemouth (p. 
262). 
Foreign —Calcaire grossier, miliolitic limestone (p. 
274). 
Soissonnais sands, or Lits coquilliers, with Num- 
mulites planulata (p. 275). 
Claiborne beds of the United States, with Orbitoides 
and Zeuglodon (p. 279). 
Nummulitic formation of Europe, Asia, etc. (p. 277). 
British —London clay proper (p. 263). 
Woolwich and Reading series, fluvio-marine (p. 
267). 
Thanet sands (p. 269). 
Foreign—KrgWQ de Londres, near Dunkirk (p. 252). 
Argile plastique (p. 276). 
t Sables de Bracheux (p. 276). 
SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC. 
CRETACE¬ 
OUS. 
10 . 
UPPER 
CRETACE¬ 
OUS. 
British —Upper white chalk, with flints (p. 290). 
Lower white chalk, without flints (p. 298). 
Chalk marl (p. 298). 
Chloritic series (or Upper Greensand), fire-stone of 
Surrey (p. 298). 
Gault (p. 300). 
Blackdown beds (p. 301). 
