Elements of geology, or, The Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments elementsofgeolog00lyel Year: 1868 Ch. XVIL] OF SOUTH OF EUROPE. 337 are met with in the chalk of the north of France, are scarcely ever found in the southern region; while the genera Ilamite, Turrilite, and Scaphite, and perhaps Belemnite,ave entirely wanting. On the other hand, certain forms are common in the south which are rare or wholly unknown in the north of France. Among these may he mentioned many Hippurites, Sphcerulites, and other members
Elements of geology, or, The Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments elementsofgeolog00lyel Year: 1868 Ch. XVIL] OF SOUTH OF EUROPE. 337 are met with in the chalk of the north of France, are scarcely ever found in the southern region; while the genera Ilamite, Turrilite, and Scaphite, and perhaps Belemnite,ave entirely wanting. On the other hand, certain forms are common in the south which are rare or wholly unknown in the north of France. Among these may he mentioned many Hippurites, Sphcerulites, and other members of that great family of mollusca called Budistes by Lamarck, to which nothing analogous has been discovered in the living creation, but which is quite characteristic of rocks of the Cretaceous era in the Fia 327. Fiar. m a. Enuolites radiosa, D'Orb. Z>. Upper valve of same, White chalk of France. Eacliolites foliaceus, D'Orb. Syn. Sphcerulites agarici- formis, Blainv. White chalk of France. Fiar. 329.
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