TERTIARY FORMATIONS OF OLTENIA WITH REGARD 

 TO SALT, PETROLEUM, AND MINERAL SPRINGS 



G. M. MURGOCI, Ph.D. 

 University of Bucharest 



CONTENTS 



Introduction. 



The North Zone of the Tertiary of Oltenia. Brezoi-Titesti Basin. 



i. Cretaceous Layers Northward from Vf. Olanestilor. 



2. Eocene Layers in the Brezoi Basin. 

 Tertiary of the Subcarpathian Region. 



A. The Flysch of the Upper Paleogene. 

 i. Middle Eocene. 



2. Upper Eocene. 



3. Oligocene. 



B. The Paleogene Klippes of Sacel and Slatioara. 



C. Neogene Formations, Miocene Series, Burdigalian Stage. 



D. Salt Formation. 



1. The Lower Horizon of the Salt Formation. 



a) Petroleum and Salt. 



b) The Slatioara Anticline. 



2. The Upper Horizon of the Salt Formation. 



c) Salt, Natural Gas, and Petroleum. 



E. The Tortonian Stage. 



The Sacel-Ciocadia Coral Reef. The Sarmatian Atoll of Sacel. 

 Mineral Springs and Natural Gas. 



F. The Sarmatian Stage. 



G. The Pontic Stage. 



1. Andesitic Tuff of Gantulesti. 



2. The Origin of Pall a and Andesitic Tuff. 



3. Other Geological Phenomena: Petroleum of Balteni — Its Origin. 

 H. The Levantine Stage. 



The Tectonic of the Subcarpathian Region of Oltenia. 

 t. General Consideration of the Tertiary Formations. 

 2. Dislocations. 



INTRODUCTION 



In Oltenia, the western part of Roumania, there are three geo- 

 logical regions: 



1. The mountains to the north, a part of the Carpathian chain, 



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