xviii SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. Chapter LV.—Pliocene Strata. PAGE The Crag Range and characters . Subdivisions Climatic changes in the period Climatic relations Antwei'p or Black Crag Coralline Crag Characteristic species . Mollusca Red Crag Characteristic species . Norwich Crag Subdivisions PAGE Upper Crag fossils . . -657 Characteristic species . . . 657 Chillesford beds .... 658 Cromer Forest bed . . . 659 Bure Valley beds . . . 660 Life of the Pliocene period . .661 Foreign Pliocene strata . . 662 France—the Faluns of Touraine . 662 Belgium • 662 Switzerland, Molasse . . . 662 ningen, quarries of . . . 663 Mayence and Vienna basins . 663 Italy and Sicily .... 664 India 666 . 667 668-672 Summary of the Pliocene life General Tables of the Organic Remains of the Pliocene Strata . . 650 . 651 ocene . 651 . 652 . 653 • 653 • 653 ■ 654 . 654 . 655 • 655 . 656 Chapter LVI.—Post-Tertiary, Post-Pliocene, or Quaternary Period. 672 673 674 675 675 675 676 676 677 677 679 686-691 . 692 • 693 General Tables of the Organic Remains of the Pleistocene Period Cm-ngenda et Errata Index .... English glacial deposits Irish glacial deposits . Central Europe, glacial deposits of Scandinavian glacial deposits North American glacial deposits . Ossiferous caves .... How formed .... How filled with bones . Kirkdale cave .... Cave of Kuhloch .... Mendip caves .... Oreston caves .... 679 680 680 680 681 682 682 683 683 684 684 685 686 Groups of the Quaternary series . Pleistocene or glacial deposits Pre-glacial land surfaces Boulder clay .... Stratified drift .... Striated, scratched, or ice-worn rocks ..... Subsidence of the ice . Second glaciation Glacial succession in Scotland Subdivisions of the drift Scottish glacial deposits Summary of the Pleistocene life .