314 THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA,

certainly favorable to this interpretation, as the European Turonian
flora is a very sparse one and presents some marked points of agree-
ment with the flora under consideration.

In conclusion, it may be well to direct attention to the fact that the
use of the minor European time divisions of the Cretaceous in this
connection may well be questioned in any event, as it is clear from the
conflicting evidence presented that it is impossible to assign sharply
Snipa limits to them in the Atlantic and eastern Gulf regions.

PEEDEE FORMATION.

The criteria for the correlation of the Peedee formation have already
y discussed in connection with the Black Creek formation.
glauconitic character of the materials, although con-

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ed beds of different character, some arenaceous and
ous, suggest similar conditions of deposition over wide
en Beal peta are found in the Monmouth forma-

1] series of the Gulf. Throvighimas the.
TD a reas these i overlie the older strata