| POST- TERTIARY | 1. RECENT Shells and mammals, all of living species. | British Clyde marine strata, with canoes ([p.146]). Foreign Danish kitchen middens ([p.146]). Lacustrine mud, with remains of Swiss lake-dwellings ([p. 148]). Marine strata inclosing Temple of Serapis, at Puzzuoli ([p. 146]). |
| 2. POST- PLIOCENE. Shells, recent mammalia in part extinct. | British Loam of Brixham cave, with flint implements and bones of extinctand living quadrupeds ([p.157]) Drift near Salisbury, with bones of mammoth, Spermophilus, andstone implements ([p. 161]). Glacial drift of Scotland, with marine shells and remains ofmammoth ([p. 176]. Erratics of Pagham and Selsey Bill ([p. 182]). Glacial drift of Wales, with marine fossil shells, about 1400feet high, on Moel Tryfaen ([p.181]). Foreign Dordogne caves of the reindeer period ([p. 150]). Older valley-gravels of Amiens, with flint implements and bonesof extinct mammalia ([p.152]). Loess of Rhine ([p. 154]). Ancient Nile-mud forming river-terraces ([p. 154]). Loam and breccia of Liege caverns, with human remains ([pp. 156, 157]). Australian cave breccias, with bones of extinct marsupials ([p. 158]). Glacial drift of Northern Europe ([p.166], [p. 174]). |
TERTIARY OR CAINOZOIC
| PLIOCENE | 3. NEWER PLIOCENE. The shells almost all of living species. | British Bridlington beds, marine Arctic fauna ([p. 189]). Glacial boulder formation of Norfolk cliffs ([p. 190]). Forest-bed of Norfolk cliffs, with bones of Elephasmeridionalis, etc. ([p.191]). Chillesford and Aldeby beds, with marine shells, chiefly Arctic([p. 192]). Norwich crag ([p. 193]). Foreign Eastern base of Mount Etna, with marine shells ([p. 204]). Sicilian calcareous and tufaceous strata ([p. 205], 206). Lacustrine strata of Upper Val d’Arno ([p. 207]). Madeira leaf-bed and land-shells ([p.532]). |
| 4. OLDER PLIOCENE. Extinct species of shells forming a large minority. | British Red crag of Suffolk, marine shells, some of northern forms ([p. 194, 195]). White or coralline crag of Suffolk ([p. 197]). Foreign Antwerp crag ([p. 204]). Subapennine marls and sands ([p.208]). |
| 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 theAzores ([).] |
| 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 Nummulitesplanulata ([p. 275]). Claiborne beds of the United States, with Orbitoides andZeuglodon ([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]). |
| CRETACEOUS | 10. UPPER CRETACEOUS. | Foreign Maetricht beds and Faxoe chalk ([p.233]). Pisolitic limestone of France ([p.285]). White chalk of France, Sweden, and Russia ([p. 286, 287]). Planer-kalk of Saxony ([p.293]). Sands and clays of Aix-la-Chapelle ([p. 302]). Hippurite limestone of South of France ([p. 305]). New Jersey, U.S., sands and marls ([p. 307]). |
| 11. LOWER CRETACEOUS or NEOCOMIAN. | British Sands of Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe ([p. 308]). Atherfield clay, with Perna mulleti ([p. 309]). Punfield marine beds, with Vicarya lujana ([p. 318]). Speeton clay of Flamborough Head and Tealby ([p. 311]). Weald clay of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, fresh-water, withCypris ([p. 313-5]). Hastings sands ([p. 316-8]). Foreign Neocomian of Neufchatel, and Hils conglomerate of North Germany([p. 312]). Wealden beds of Hanover ([p.319]). | |
| OOLITE | 12. UPPER OOLITE. | British Upper Purbeck beds, fresh-water ([p.323]). Middle Purbeck, with numerous marsupial quadrupeds, etc. ([p. 324]). Lower Purbeck, fresh-water, with intercalated dirt-bed ([p. 330]). Portland stone and sand. ([p.334]). Kimmeridge clay ([p. 335]). Foreign Marnes à gryphées virgules of Argonne ([p. 336]). Lithographic-stone of Solenhofen, with Archæopteryx([p. 337]). |
| 13. MIDDLE OOLITE. | British Coral rag of Berkshire, Wilts, and Yorkshire ([p. 339]). Oxford clay, with belemnites and Ammonite ([p. 340]). Kelloway rock of Wilts and Yorkshire ([p. 341]). Foreign Nerinæan limestone of the Jura ([p. 339]). | |
| 14. LOWER OOLITE. | British Cornbrash and forest marble ([p.341]). Great or Bath oolite of Bradford ([p.342]). Stonesfield slate, with marsupials and Araucaria ([p. 345]). Fuller’s earth of Bath ([p.348]). Inferior oolite ([p. 349]). | |
| LIAS | 15. LIAS. | Upper Lias, argillaceous, with Ammonitesstriatulus ([p. 353]). Shale and limestone, with Ammonites bifrons ([p. 353]). Middle Lias or Marlstone series, with zones containingcharacteristic Ammonites ([p.353]). Lower Lias, also with zones characterised by peculiar Ammonites([p. 356]). |
| TRIAS | 16. UPPER TRIAS. | British Rhætic, Penarth or Avicula contorta beds (beds ofpassage) ([p. 366]). Keuper or Upper New Red sandstone, etc. ([p. 369]). Red shales of Cheshire and Lancashire, with rock-salt ([p. 371]). Dolomite conglomerate of Bristol ([p.373]). Foreign Keuper beds of Germany ([p.375]). St. Cassian or Hallstadt beds, with rich marine fauna ([p. 376]). Coal-field of Richmond, Virginia ([p.382]). Chatham coal-field, North Carolina ([p. 383]). |
| 17. MIDDLE TRIAS. | British Wanting. Foreign Muschelkalk of Germany ([p.378]). | |
| 18. LOWER TRIAS. | British Bunter or Lower New Red sandstone of Lancashire and Cheshire ([p. 372]). Foreign Bunter-sandstein of Germany ([p.380]). Red sandstone of Connecticut Valley, with footprints of birds andreptiles ([p. 381]). |