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

CHAPTER XV.

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UPPER EOCENE FORMATIONS.

Eocene areas in England and France--Tabular view of French Eocene strata--Upper Eocene group of the Paris basin--Same beds in Belgium and at Berlin--Mayence tertiary strata--Freshwater upper Eocene of Central France--Series of geographical changes since the land emerged in Auvergne--Mineral character an uncertain test of age--Marls containing Cypris--Oolite of Eocene period--Indusial limestone and its origin--Fossil mammalia of the upper Eocene strata in Auvergne--Freshwater strata of the Cantal, calcareous and siliceous--Its resemblance to chalk--Proofs of gradual deposition of strata 174