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The lowest Tertiary division of the Carpathian sand- 

 stone in this rep-ion is the orbitoides breccia, which is 

 exposed near Auspitz in the centre of an anticlinal. It has 

 sometimes been called " nummulite sandstone," but it 

 contains Orbitoides and not Nummulites. Excepting for 

 this the main mass of the Steinitzerwald is made up of 

 the next succeeding bed, a light-coloured platy sandstone 

 called the Steinitz sandstone, which near Auspitz passes 

 into marls (Auspitz marls). The so-called " upper hiero- 

 glyph beds" and the well-known Menilit-schiefer (Amphisyle- 

 schiefer of Suess, with fish-remains) are really local facies 

 of the same deposit ; and lenticular masses of clay contain- 

 ing foraminifera also occur locally. No exact correlation 

 can be attempted, and all that can be determined is that 

 these beds belong to the older Tertiary. 



The newer Tertiaries are represented by the Magura 

 sandstone (" March-sandstein " of Glocker), which forms 

 the main mass of the Marsgebirge. It is generally a coarse 

 and unequally-grained quartzose sandstone, often breccia- 

 like at its base ; and fossils are rare within it. 



Thus the series as developed here consists of: — 



/Orbitoides beds. 

 Older Tertiary. [Steinitz sandstone (including the Amphisyle beds, 



( Auspitz marl, etc.). 



Newer Tertiary. Magura sandstone. 



These beds are thrown into a series of anticlinal and 

 synclinal folds, the axes of which run from south-west to 

 north-east, parallel to the direction of the Carpathians in 

 this area. 



The lower ground to the north-west, between these 

 mountains and the older rocks north-east of Briinn, has been 

 examined by von Tausch (38), who devotes the greater 

 part of his paper to the description of the Miocene deposits. 

 These all belong to the second Mediterranean stage and 

 consist of sands, marls, clays, etc., with nullipore limestones 

 and sandstones in the upper part. Excepting locally the 

 beds are horizontal : to the west they probably rest directly 

 upon the Culm, to the east upon the Flysch of the Car- 

 pathians. 



