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MIOCENE 5. UPPER MIOCENE. Majority of the shells extinct. British Wanting. Foreign Faluns of Touraine (p. 211). Faluns, proper, of Bordeaux (p. 214). Fresh-water strata of Gers (p. 215). Swiss Oeningen beds, rich in plants and insects (pp. 215-23). Marine Molasse, Switzerland (p. 223). Bolderberg beds of Belgium (p. 224). Vienna basin (p. 224). Beds of the Superga, near Turin (p. 226). Deposit at Pikermé, near Athens (p. 226). Strata of the Siwâlik hills, India (p. 226). Marine strata of the Atlantic border in the United States (p. 227). Volcanic tuff and limestone of Madeira, the Canaries, and the Azores (). 6. LOWER MIOCENE. Nearly all the shells extinct. British 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). Grès 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 (p. 235-9). Rupelmonde, Kleynspawen, and Tongrian beds of Belgium (p. 241, 242). Nebraska beds, United States (p. 248). Lower Miocene beds of Italy (p. 244). Miocene flora of North Greenland (p. 239). EOCENE 7. UPPER EOCENE. 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). Foreign Gypsum of Montmartre, fresh-water with Palæotherium (p. 270). Calcaire silicieux, or Travertin inférieur (p. 273), Grès de Beauchamp, or Sables moyens (p. 273). 8. MIDDLE EOCENE. 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 Nummulites planulata (p. 275). Claiborne beds of the United States, with Orbitoides and Zeuglodon (p. 279). Nummulitic formation of Europe, Asia, etc. (p. 277). 9. LOWER EOCENE. British London clay proper (p. 263). Woolwich and Reading series, fluvio-marine (p. 267). Thanet sands (p. 269). Foreign Argile de Londres, near Dunkirk (p. 252). Argile plastique (p. 276). Sables de Bracheux (p. 276).
SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC.
CRETACEOUS 10. UPPER CRETACEOUS. 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).
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