The Calcaire de Beauce is a solid freshwater limestone formed in the great lake which in the Miocene age occupied the plain of the Beauce and extended into Touraine.
The supposed chipped flints are said to appear sparingly in the upper deposits, disappear in the Calcaire de Beauce, and reappear, at first sparingly and then plentifully, in the lacustrian marls below the limestone.
There occur no less than 137 species of this genus in the Paris basin, and almost all of them in the Calcaire grossier.
The Muschelkalk (the Calcaire coquillier of the French) consists of compact grey or yellowish limestones, sometimes dolomitic, and including occasional beds of gypsum and rock-salt.
The chief Continental formations of Middle Eocene age are the "Calcaire grossier" of the Paris basin, and the "Nummulitic Limestone" of the Alps.
In this formation in the Alps they occur in such abundance as to give rise to the name of "Calcaire à Dicerates," applied to beds of the same age as the Coral-rag of Britain.
The gypsum, with its associated marls before described, is in greatest force towards the centre of the basin, where the calcaire grossier and calcaire silicieux are less fully developed.
The calcaire siliceux and the calcaire grossier usually occupy distinct parts of the Paris basin, the one attaining its fullest development in those places where the other is of slight thickness.
There occur no less than 137 species of this genus in the Paris basin, and almost all of them in the calcaire grossier.
In some parts of the calcaire grossier round Paris, certain beds occur of a stone used in building, and called by the French geologists "Miliolite limestone.
The middle division, or calcaire grossier proper, consists of a coarse limestone, often passing into sand.
The upper or calcareous member of this group in Sicily consists in some places of a yellowish-white stone, like the Calcaire Grossier of Paris; in others, of a rock nearly as compact as marble.
The Nautilus Danicus (see Figure 230) is characteristic of this formation; and it also occurs in France in the calcaire pisolitique of Laversin (Department of Oise).
The gypsum, with its associated marl and limestone, is in greatest force towards the centre of the basin, where the calcaire grossier and calcaire siliceux are less fully developed.
Calcaire siliceux, hard siliceous freshwater { limestone, for the most part contemporaneous { with c.
The upper or calcareous member of this group in Sicily consists in some places of a yellowish-white stone, like the calcaire grossier of Paris, in others, of a rock nearly as compact as marble.
Deshayes has described 29 species of shells, in his work (Coquilles fossiles de Paris), as belonging to this formation, all save one regarded by him as differing from fossils of the calcaire grossier.
On the other hand, 70 of them agree with the calcaire grossier shells.
European species, or very nearly allied to them, make it highly probable that the Claiborne beds agree in age with the central or Bracklesham group of England, and the calcaire grossier of Paris.
These microscopic testacea are also accompanied by Cerithia and other shells of the calcaire grossier.
In the Lower Eocene of the Soissonais this shell acquires but a small volume, and has many peculiarities, which disappear in the lowest beds of the calcaire grossier.
Nearly an equal number of still older shells have been detected in a single deposit of the Paris basin,--the Calcaire grossier; and a good many more in a more ancient formation still, the London Clay.
It dissolves slowly and with feeble effervescence in dilute muriatic acid; whence it is called Calcaire lent dolomie by the French mineralogists.
The taste is astringent, probably from the alumina; and it is based upon outcrops of a sandy calcaire apparently fit for hydraulic cement.
Edward Turner, and in another examined by Berthier, from the calcaire grossier, near Paris, which is essentially a serpentine in composition, being a hydrous silicate of magnesia and protoxyd of iron.
The Middle Eocene is represented by the well-known "Calcaire grossier," about 90 ft.
The first section of this treatise has for title, Génération du Caillou et du Quartz de la terre calcaire pure.
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