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TABLE II. 
Showing the Order of Superposition, or Chronological Succession, 
of the principal Sedimentary Deposits or Groups of 
Strata in Europe. 
This Table is referred to in the Glossary, and includes the Secondary Formations alluded 
to in this Work, but not described in detail. 
Periods and 
Groups. 
Names of the principal Members and general Mineral nature of 
the Formation. 
Some of the Localities where the 
Formation occurs. 
RIOD. 
The deposits of this period are for the most part concealed under 
existing lakes and seas. 
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SI 
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H 
Ph 
M 
A 
Consolidated sandy and gravelly beds («), 
travertin limestones (6), calcareous sandstones 
with broken shells (c), coral limestone, consist- 
ing of corals, shells, &c. (d) 
a. Delta of the Rhone. 
b. Tivoli, and other parts 
of Italy. 
e. Shore of island of Gna- 
daloupe. 
d. Coral reefs in Pacific, 
&c. 
Q 
B 
<u a 
*J 
Marine. 
Limestone, sands, 
clays, sandstones, con- 
glomerates, marls with 
gypsum ; containing 
marine fossils (a). 
Freshwater. 
Sands, clays, sand- 
stones, lignites, &c. ; 
containing land and 
freshwater fossils (b). 
a. Sicily, Ischia, Morea ? 
b. Colle in Tuscany. 
II. Tertiary Perio: 
Older 
Pliocene. 
Subapennine marl, 
Subapennine yelloiu 
sand, English 'crag? 
and other deposits, as 
inB, containing marine 
fossils (a). 
Similar deposits to 
B; containing land and 
freshwater fossils (b). 
a. Subapennine forma- 
tions, Perpignan, Nice, 
Norfolk and Suffolk. 
b. Near Sienna, &c. 
Miocene. O 
Faluns of the Loire, 
and other deposits of 
similar mineral compo- 
sition with B and G, 
containing marine fos- 
sils (a). 
Similar deposits to B 
and C ; containing 
land and freshwater 
fossils (6), 
a, Touraine, Bordeaux, 
Valley of Bormida, Su- 
perga near Turin, Ba- 
sin of Vienna. 
b. Saucats, twelve miles 
south of Bordeaux. 
