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Synoptical Table of Recent and Tertiary Formations. 
PERIODS. 
Character 
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Formations. 
Localities of the different Formations. 
I. Recent. 
Marine. 
Freshwater. 
Volcanic. 
1. Newer 
Pliocene. 
Marine. 
Freshwater. 
Volcanic. 
( Marine. 
II. Tertiary, f 
2. Older I 
Pliocene. ] Freshwater. 
. Volcanic. 
' Marine. 
3. Miocene. \ Freshwater 
■ Volcanic. 
/"Marine. 
4. Eocene. J Freshwater. 
/ Coral formations of Pacific. 
I Delta of Po, Ganges, &c. 
(Modern deposits in Lake Superior — 
Lake of Geneva — Marl lakes of 
Scotland — Italian travertin, &c. 
{Jorullo — Monte Nuovo — Modern 
lavas of Iceland, Etna, Vesuvius, 
&c. 
f Strata of the Val di Noto in Sicily. 
1 Ischia, Morea ? Uddevalla. 
/ Valley of the Elsa around Colle in 
t Tuscany. 
Volcanic. 
Older parts of Vesuvius, Etna, and 
Ischia — Volcanic rocks of the 
Val di Noto in Sicily. 
f Northern Subapennine formations, as 
I at Parma, Asti, Sienna, Perpig- 
nan, Nice — English Crag. 
f Alternating with marine beds near 
I the town of Sienna. 
f Volcanos of Tuscany and Campagna 
I di Roma. 
{Strata of Touraine, Bordeaux, Valley 
of the Bormida, and the Superga 
near Turin — Basin of Vienna. 
/ Alternating with marine at Saucats, 
1 twelve miles south of Bordeaux. 
Hungarian and Transylvanian vol- 
canic rocks. . 
Part of the volcanos of Auvergne, 
Cantal, and Velay ? 
Paris and London Basins. 
{Alternating with marine in Paris ba- 
sin — Isle of Wight — purely la- 
custrine in Auvergne, Cantal, and 
Velay. 
f Oldest part of volcanic rocks of Au- 
l vergne. 
