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Upper Miocene of Bordeaux and
the South of France. Upper Miocene of Oeningen, in Switzerland.
Plants of the Upper Fresh-water Molasse. Fossil Fruit and Flowers as
well as Leaves. Insects of the Upper Molasse. Middle or Marine
Molasse of Switzerland. Upper Miocene Beds of the Bolderberg, in
Belgium. Vienna Basin. Upper Miocene of Italy and Greece. Upper
Miocene of India; Siwalik Hills. Older Pliocene and Miocene of the
United States.



CHAPTER XV.
LOWER MIOCENE.
Lower Miocene Strata of France. Line between Miocene and Eocene.
Lacustrine Strata of Auvergne. Fossil Mammalia of the Limagne
d'Auvergne. Lower Molasse of Switzerland. Dense Conglomerates and
Proofs of Subsidence. Flora of the Lower Molasse. American Character

of the Flora. Theory of a Miocene Atlantis. Lower Miocene of Belgium.
Rupelian Clay of Hermsdorf near Berlin. Mayence Basin. Lower
Miocene of Croatia. Oligocene Strata of Beyrich. Lower Miocene of
Italy. Lower Miocene of England. Hempstead Beds. Bovey Tracey
Lignites in Devonshire. Isle of Mull Leaf-Beds. Arctic Miocene Flora.
Disco Island. Lower Miocene of United States. Fossils of Nebraska.



CHAPTER XVI.
EOCENE FORMATIONS.
Eocene Areas of North of Europe. Table of English and French Eocene
Strata. Upper Eocene of England. Bembridge Beds. Osborne or St.
Helen's Beds. Headon Series. Fossils of the Barton Sands and Clays.
Middle Eocene of England. Shells, Nummulites, Fish and Reptiles of
the Bracklesham Beds and Bagshot Sands. Plants of Alum Bay and
Bournemouth. Lower Eocene of England. London Clay Fossils.
Woolwich and Reading Beds formerly called "Plastic Clay." Fluviatile
Beds underlying Deep-sea Strata. Thanet Sands. Upper Eocene Strata
of France. Gypseous Series of Montmartre and Extinct Quadrupeds.
Fossil Footprints in Paris Gypsum. Imperfection of the Record.
Calcaire Silicieux. Gres de Beauchamp. Calcaire Grossier. Miliolite
Limestone. Soissonnais Sands. Lower Eocene of France. Nummulitic
Formations of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Eocene Strata in the United
States. Gigantic Cetacean.

CHAPTER XVII.
UPPER CRETACEOUS GROUP.
Lapse of Time between Cretaceous and Eocene Periods. Table of
successive Cretaceous Formations. Maestricht Beds. Pisolitic
Limestone of France. Chalk of Faxoe. Geographical Extent and Origin
of the White Chalk. Chalky Matter now forming in the Bed of the
Atlantic. Marked Difference between the Cretaceous and existing
Fauna. Chalk-flints. Pot-stones of Horstead. Vitreous Sponges in the
Chalk. Isolated Blocks of Foreign Rocks in the White Chalk supposed
to be ice-borne. Distinctness of Mineral Character in contemporaneous
Rocks of the Cretaceous Epoch. Fossils of the White Chalk. Lower
White Chalk without Flints. Chalk Marl and its Fossils. Chloritic Series
or Upper Greensand. Coprolite Bed near Cambridge. Fossils of the
Chloritic Series. Gault. Connection between Upper and Lower
Cretaceous Strata. Blackdown Beds. Flora of the Upper Cretaceous
Period. Hippurite Limestone. Cretaceous Rocks in the United States.



CHAPTER XVIII.
LOWER CRETACEOUS OR NEOCOMIAN FORMATION.
Classification of marine and fresh-water Strata. Upper Neocomian.
Folkestone and Hythe Beds. Atherfield Clay. Similarity of Conditions
causing Reappearance of Species after short Intervals. Upper Speeton
Clay. Middle Neocomian. Tealby Series. Middle Speeton Clay. Lower
Neocomian. Lower Speeton Clay. Wealden Formation. Fresh-water
Character of the Wealden. Weald Clay. Hastings Sands. Punfield Beds
of Purbeck, Dorsetshire. Fossil Shells and Fish of the Wealden. Area of
the Wealden. Flora of the Wealden.

CHAPTER XIX.
JURASSIC GROUP.-- PURBECK BEDS AND OOLITE.
The Purbeck Beds a Member of the Jurassic Group. Subdivisions of
that Group. Physical Geography of the Oolite in England and France.
Upper Oolite. Purbeck Beds. New Genera of fossil Mammalia in the
Middle Purbeck of Dorsetshire. Dirt-bed or ancient Soil. Fossils of the
Purbeck Beds. Portland Stone and Fossils. Kimmeridge Clay.
Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen. Archaeopteryx. Middle Oolite.
Coral Rag. Nerinaea Limestone. Oxford Clay, Ammonites and
Belemnites. Kelloway Rock. Lower, or Bath, Oolite. Great Plants of
the Oolite. Oolite and Bradford Clay. Stonesfield Slate. Fossil
Mammalia. Fuller's Earth. Inferior Oolite and Fossils.
Northamptonshire Slates. Yorkshire Oolitic Coal-field. Brora Coal.
Palaeontological Relations of the several Subdivisions of the Oolitic
group.



CHAPTER XX.
JURASSIC GROUP-- CONTINUED.-- LIAS.
Mineral Character of Lias. Numerous successive Zones in the Lias,
marked by distinct Fossils, without Unconformity in the Stratification,
or Change in the Mineral Character of the Deposits. Gryphite
Limestone. Shells of the Lias. Fish of the Lias. Reptiles of the Lias.

Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur. Marine Reptile of the Galapagos Islands.
Sudden Destruction and Burial of Fossil Animals in Lias.
Fluvio-marine Beds in Gloucestershire, and Insect Limestone. Fossil
Plants. The origin of the Oolite and Lias, and of alternating Calcareous
and Argillaceous Formations.



CHAPTER XXI.
TRIAS, OR NEW RED SANDSTONE GROUP.
Beds of Passage between the Lias and Trias, Rhaetic Beds. Triassic
Mammifer. Triple Division of the Trias. Keuper, or Upper Trias of
England. Reptiles of the Upper Trias. Foot-prints in the Bunter
formation in England. Dolomitic Conglomerate of Bristol. Origin of
Red Sandstone and Rock-salt. Precipitation of Salt from inland Lakes
and Lagoons. Trias of