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discovered.
Silurian(?) slates are found at Guanajuato,
Catorce, and Jacatecas. The Catorce slates
are Jurassic.
Devonian. Aguilera looked up the reported
Dev. localities but in each case found no
post-Jurassic rocks.
Carboniferous. Are found beneath the Gulf.
along the Guatemalan border. Limestone with
P. seminecticalatus. Fragra and Oaxaco's
Cath. localities are now known to be within
Gulf or J. outcrop age.
Aguilera thinks the Archean ridge continued
to persist as islands were through the Pal.
alienation
and other united into a Jurassic ridge at
the Perm-Carth. movements.
Upper Triassic. Hallas' crust deposits along
Gulf coast up to 3000 feet, 1600 feet in Sonora.
Sandstone and slates. Rest on Archean,
or fossils. The strata are not thought to be
momentum that for quite late Triassic
formation but may be extreme deposits.
Jurassic. Ingression of the sea.
These rocks go with the Cretaceous
and are folded with them. Lower Jurassic
in southeast Mexico. Upper Jurassic in