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A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological MonumentsLyell, Charles, Sir

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

Name: A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments
Author: Lyell, Charles, Sir

Lyell, Charles, Sir

Geology

Danien.      Maestricht beds.
  Senonien.    Upper and lower white chalk, and chalk marl.
  Turonien.    Part of the chalk marl and the upper greensand, the latter
               being in his last work (Cours Elementaire) termed
               Cenomanien.
  Albien.      Gault.
  Aptien.      Upper part of lower greensand.
  Neocomien.   Lower part of same.

[211-A] See paper by the author, Trans. of Geol. Soc., vol. v.
p. 246., 1840.

[211-B] Fitton, Geol. Trans., 2d series, vol. iv. p. 319.

[215-A] Proceedings of Geol. Soc., vol. iii. pp. 7, 8., 1842.

[216-A] Geol. Trans. Second Series, vol. iii. p. 232. plate 31.
figs. 3. and 11.

[216-B] Geol. of U. S. Exploring Exped. p. 252. 1849.

[217-A] See Chapters X. and XI.

[217-B] Darwin, p. 549. Kotzebue's First Voyage, vol. iii. p. 155.

[217-C] Mantell, Geol. of S. E. of England, p. 96.

[219-A] Dr. Fitton, Quart. Geol. Journ., vol. i. p. 179., ii. p. 55.,
and iii. p. 289., where comparative sections and a valuable table
showing the vertical range of the various fossils of the lower greensand
at Atherfield is given.

[221-A] Archiac, sur la Form. Cretacee du S. O. de la France, Mem. de la
Soc. Geol. de France, tom. ii.

[222-A] D'Orbigny's Paleontologie Francaise, pl. 533.

[223-A] In this and subsequent remarks on fossil plants I shall often
use Dr. Lindley's terms, as most familiar in this country; but as those
of M. A. Brongniart are much cited, it may be useful to geologists to
give a table explaining the corresponding names of groups so much spoken
of in palaeontology.

       |         Brongniart.
       |             |        |Lindley.
       |             |        |           Examples.
  Cryptogamic.
       |             |1. Cryptogamous amphigens, or cellular cryptogamic.
       |             |        |Thallogens.
       |             |        |           |Lichens, sea-weeds, fungi.
       |             |2. Cryptogamous acrogens.
       |             |        |Acrogens.
       |             |        |           |Mosses, equisetums, ferns,
       |             |        |           |lycopodiums--Lepidodendron.
       |             |        |           |
  Phanerogamic.
       |             |3. Dicotyledonous gymnosperms.
       |             |        |Gymnogens.
       |             |        |           |Conifers and Cycads.
       |             |4. Dicot. Angiosperms.
       |             |        |Exogens.
       |             |        |           |Compositae, leguminosae, umbelliferae,
       |             |        |           |cruciferae, heaths, &c. All native
       |             |        |           |European trees except conifers.
       |             |5. Monocotyledons.
       |             |        |Endogens.
       |             |        |           |Palms, lilies, aloes, rushes,
       |             |        |           |grasses, &c.

[223-B] A. Brongniart, Veget. Foss. Dict. Univ., p. 111., 1849.

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