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 * +—Representative Carboniferous Formations.
 * Stages.
 * England and Wales.
 * Ireland
 * Scotland.
 * Continental.
 * Conditions of Deposition.
 * North.
 * South.
 * North.
 * South.
 * Central.
 * Belgium and Germany.
 * G.
 * Upper Coal-measures of Manchester, &amp;c., Staf- fordshire, Denbigh- shire.
 * Generally absent (through denudation).
 * Absent (through denu- dation).
 * Absent (through denu- dation).
 * Upper red sandstones of Bothwell &amp;c. Ayrshire beds with Spirobis Limestone.
 * Possibly present in the Belgian and Saarbrück Coal- fields.
 * Essentially estuarine and lacustrine, with intrusions of the sea at long intervals.
 * F.
 * Middle Coal-measures with thick coal-seams &amp;c., Lancashire, York- shire, Derbyshire, &amp;c.
 * Middle Coal-measure of South Wales and Somersetshire, &amp;c.
 * Coal-Island Coal-field, co. Tyrone.
 * Leinster Coal-field from "the Jarrow Coal" upwards.
 * "Flat-coal" series or "Upper Coal series" of Scotland with thick coals.
 * Mail Coal-measures of Belgium, Saar- brück, Westphalia, Saxony, and Silesia, &amp;c.
 * E.
 * "Gannister Beds," or Lower Coal-measures.
 * Lower Coal-measures, with ironstones and thin coals.
 * Lower Coal-measures of Drumglas (Tyrone), coal-fields of Lough Allen (co. Leitrim).
 * Lower Coal-measures of Leinster, Modu- bagh, Tolteron, Skelhann and Slieve- ardagh, &amp;c.
 * Beds on the horizon of "the Slaty-band" ironstone?
 * Schistes de Lens, Auchy-au-Bois, Chokier, Bottom shales of the Coal- measures of Silesia, &amp;c.
 * Essentially marine rarely estuarine. (Sea shallower than in Stage B.)
 * D.
 * Millstone Grit series, Leicestershire, York- shire, Derbyshire, &amp;c.
 * Millstone Grit, or "Farewell Rock."
 * Millstone Grit of Fer- managh, Sligo, &amp;c. (Cuilcagh).
 * Flagstone series of Curlow, Kilkenny, Clare, &amp;c.
 * "Moonstone rock" and Roslin sandstone.
 * Generally absent in Belgium. Flötz- leerer Sundstein of Germany.
 * C.
 * Yoredale series, or Up- per Limestone shale. "Upper Bernician beds" (Lebour).
 * Upper Limestone shale (thin).
 * Ironstone shales of Lough Allen, also of Drumglas (co. Tyrone).
 * "Shale series" of Cur- low, Kilkenny, Clare, &amp;c.
 * "Upper Limestone series" resting on "Lower coal and ironstone series"?
 * Calcaire de Visé, Bruchberg crinoi- dal sandstone (Harz)?
 * B.
 * "Mountain Limestone" of Derbyshire, "Scaur or Scar" Limestone (Sedgwick).
 * Carboniferous Limestone of Cheddar, the Wye, Avon, and S. Wales, &amp;c.
 * Carboniferous Limestone in three divisions, Ballycastle Coal-field, co. Antrim (in part).
 * Carboniferous Lime- stone, in three di- visions.
 * "Lower Limestone series" of Gilmer- ton, Roman camp, &amp;c.
 * Carboniferous Lime- stone of Belgium (Calc. de Dinant, Calc. de Tournai), France, Germany, Russia, &amp;c.
 * Essentially marine, and deep-sea beds (except occasionally in Scotland, where lacustrine or esta- rine beds occur).
 * A.
 * "Tuedian Group" (Tate), often absent in N. Lancashire &amp;c.
 * Lower Limestone shale (thin).
 * Calciferous Sandstone series or Lower Car- boniferous Grits.
 * Lower Carboniferous slate (in part) with Cambota grits.
 * Carboniferous Sandstone series in two groups
 * Psammites du Con- dros, "Schistes de Tournai," and "Kiesel-Schiefer," &amp;c. "Jungere Granwacke" of the Vosges and of the Schwarzwald.
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 * "Lower Limestone series" of Gilmer- ton, Roman camp, &amp;c.
 * Carboniferous Lime- stone of Belgium (Calc. de Dinant, Calc. de Tournai), France, Germany, Russia, &amp;c.
 * Essentially marine, and deep-sea beds (except occasionally in Scotland, where lacustrine or esta- rine beds occur).
 * A.
 * "Tuedian Group" (Tate), often absent in N. Lancashire &amp;c.
 * Lower Limestone shale (thin).
 * Calciferous Sandstone series or Lower Car- boniferous Grits.
 * Lower Carboniferous slate (in part) with Cambota grits.
 * Carboniferous Sandstone series in two groups
 * Psammites du Con- dros, "Schistes de Tournai," and "Kiesel-Schiefer," &amp;c. "Jungere Granwacke" of the Vosges and of the Schwarzwald.
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