THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL 



On Terrestrial or Epigeic Deposits on the surface of the 

 Morea. 



By the term Terrestrial or Epigeic deposits, we mean all pro- 

 ducts formed on an emerged part of the surface of the earth. 

 Though their loose texture exposes them to destruction during 

 all great movements of the soil, there "is no country where they 

 ouglit not to be able to preserve themselves in some localities. 

 In every region of the globe, a series of deposits of this nature 

 should exist, more or less ancient, more or less continuous, 

 parallel with that of marine deposits. Their age reaches back 

 to the first emerging of solid rock, and their composition entirely 

 depends on its nature. 



The Morea had already partially emerged at the time of the 

 deposit of the tertiary gompholites, which, in our opinion, re- 

 semble the nagelflue of Switzerland; great dislocations, up- 

 raisings from 1000 to 1200«metres, accompanied their appear- 

 ance, entirely changed the form of the surface, and the anterior 

 epigeic deposits must have almost entirely disappeared ; but, m 

 commencing at this epoch, the Morea having assumed, as we 

 are going to show, the principal inequalities of its surface, we 

 ought to find in it some epigeic deposits of the sub-appenine 

 period, and all those of the succeeding period even to the pre- 

 sent time. 



The period which we embrace, accordingly, comprehends not 

 only the sub-appenine epoch, but also that of the various up- 

 raisings which have given to Greece its present physiognomy, an 



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