A Manual of Elementary Geology or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments

CHAPTER X.

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CLASSIFICATION OF TERTIARY FORMATIONS.--POST-PLIOCENE GROUP.

General principles of classification of tertiary strata--Detached formations scattered over Europe--Strata of Paris and London--More modern groups--Peculiar difficulties in determining the chronology of tertiary formations--Increasing proportion of living species of shells in strata of newer origin--Terms Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene--Post-Pliocene strata--Recent or human period--Older Post-Pliocene formations of Naples, Uddevalla, and Norway--Ancient upraised delta of the Mississippi--Loess of the Rhine Page 104