IN THE MORE EASTERN DISTRICTS 11 



The coasts of Asia Minor furnish us with scant 

 evidence relating to the Submergence. Raised 

 Beaches have been noticed in several places, but 

 no good case of a " Head " has been recorded ; but 

 then it may not have been sought for. Mention is, 

 however, made of extensive detrital deposits of local 

 origin, and of late Quaternary age, on the slopes of 

 the hills. These may represent the Rubble-drift, and 

 if followed down to the coast would probably be found 

 to assume the character of a " Head." How far 

 these deposits may extend eastward we have as yet 

 no means of knowing. Observations are needed in 

 Armenia, Kurdistan, and Northern Persia countries 

 which lie in the line of strike of the submerged area. 1 



The afore-named deposits belong to the coarser 

 forms of the Rubble-drift swept off the surface during 

 the emergence of the land. But there is another form 

 of it which could not have failed to result as a con- 

 sequence of the submergence ; for as the waters 

 encroached on the land, howsoever slow might have 

 been their advance, the ablution of the surface soil 

 and subsoils must have rendered them more or less 

 turbid in proportion to the character of the 

 strata. Where the rocks were hard, as in the 

 south-west of England, and much of the Medi- 

 terranean area, the quantity of sediment would 

 be small, but where, as in the south-east of 

 England, in France, and Central Europe, there were 



1 May not the Caspian, the Sea of Ural, and other of these 

 inland salt lakes and swamps be remains of this great sub- 

 mergence ? 



