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RESEARCH IN CHINA. 


Permo-Mesozoic. 

Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). 

Sin-t’ai series. | py; E 
Po-shan series. 


Ordovi- 

clan. 
Tsi-nan lime- 
stone. 





























































Feet. | Meters. 
500+ 150+ | Massive red clays with interstratified layers of lime 
nodules and coarse conglomerate. 
100- 30+ | Not observed. 
2504 75+ | Gray sandy shale and sandstone. 
300+ 90+ | Dull red cross-bedded sandstone. 
200+ 60+ | Not observed. 
6 Purple-brown sandstone. 
48 Stratified green tuffs and basalt flows. 
18 Red sandy shale. 
8 Gray and red conglomeratic sandstone. 
10 Red sandy shale. 
9 Gray and maroon sandstone. 
= —_ 140 42 Yellow and purple shales with green stratified tuffs 
Pern NNT and basalt flows. 
Cp oentaaieana : 50 15 Black and maroon shales. 
30 Yellow and brown shale and sandstone. 
17 Gray and yellow shale, green sandstone. 
16 Gray shale. 
12 Maroon shale. 
8 Brown graywacke sandstone. 
54 Brown, yellow, and gray ‘shale, with coal and lime- 
——— stone. 
———— Unconformity. 
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FIG, 12,—SECTION OF CARBONIFEROUS AND LATER FORMATIONS NEAR YEN-CHUANG, SHAN-TUNG, 
