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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12645151965).jpg 218 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Dec 13 <br> s <br> s <br> JO T l BDS <br> <br> Val d'Astico resembled forms published by <br> Brander from the London clay of Hamp- <br> shire M Brongniart however first sy- <br> stematically classified these strata as older <br> tertiary and described their organic re- <br> mains whilst our associate Dr Buckland <br> arrived about the same time at a like con- <br> clusion in his general survey of the Alpsf <br> But although there could be little doubt <br> from the absence of cretaceous fossils and <br> the presence of a multitude of genera having <br> a tertiary facies that these shelly masses <br> were younger than the chalk the great <br> desideratum still remained of natural exhi- <br> bitions of the true relations of these strata <br> to the inferior or secondary rocks These <br> were the more called for as some leading <br> geologists considered all the nummulite de- <br> posits of the Vicentine to be of cretaceous <br> age In our rapid survey of parts of the <br> Vicentine in 1828 Sir C Lyell and myself <br> having visited the principal localities de- <br> scribed by Brongniart as ' calcareo-trap- <br> peens found these shelly deposits so com- <br> mingled with and interrupted by basaltic <br> and other eruptive rocks that we were <br> unable any more than our precursor to de- <br> tect an order of succession It was after <br> my colleague had proceeded on his journey <br> to the south of Italy and Sicily that in <br> returning to England across the Venetian <br> Alps I obtained the desired proofs of that <br> order in the clear and instructive natural <br> sections on the banks of the Brenta near <br> Bassano and again between Possagno and <br> Asolo I there saw the same nummulitic <br> and shelly beds as those of the adjacent <br> Vicentine entirely free from igneous intru- <br> sions reposing conformably on the scaglia <br> or the Italian equivalent of the chalk and <br> passing upwards into strata of younger ter- <br> tiary age the whole upraised in lines par- <br> allel to the direction of the Alpine chain <br> The figures of the remarkable sections <br> near Bassano were published in the ' Philo- <br> sophical Magazine ' but as that work is in <br> Memoire sur les Terrains de Sediment supe- <br> rieurs calcareo-trappeens du Vicentin par Alex- <br> andre Brongniart Paris 1823 <br> t See Annals of Philosophy June 1821 35268862 109512 51125 Page 218 Text v 5 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268862 1849 Geological Society of London NameFound Brenta NameConfirmed Brenta NameBankID 4095247 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 5 1849 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35268862 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268862 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-20 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12645151965 2015-08-27 10 52 17 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1849 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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