672 G. M. MURGOCI 



Redlich 1 has shown that the marls, sandstones, and conglomerates of 

 the Brezoi Basin, which on Gr. Stefanescu's map were figured with the 

 color for Eocene with a point of interrogation, belong to the Senonian, 

 the horizon with Inoceramus Cripsii; he suggested that similar 

 formations lower than Eocene strata, in the neighboring Titesti 

 Basin, might belong also to this horizon. 



1. It may be that the conglomerates above the Brezoi breccia, 2 

 mica sandstones and marls, which form the mountains to the north- 

 west of the Cozia Monastery and Sturii Olanestilor up to the Piatra 

 Stogului, can be ascribed to the upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian 

 upward). 3 I can adduce as evidence the topographic continuity of 

 these deposits with the Senonian strata from the Brezoi Basin through 

 the Stan valley, and the identical facies and composition of the 

 rocks from these two places. These are: coarse conglomerates, 

 shingle, and sandstones with crystalline rock elements at the contact 

 with the crystalline foundation; finer sandstones and marls farther 

 off from this contact. 



Stratigraphical and tectonical considerations speak even more for 

 the synchronism of these deposits (see below). L. Mrazec, in a 

 communication to the Society of Science (Bucharest, February, 1904), 

 expresses the same hypothesis for the Brezoi breccia from the Arges 

 valley (Capatineni) which underlie the Eocene strata (described by 

 Sabba Stefanescu) ; K. Redlich makes also the same suggestion for 

 representatives of the same breccia and conglomerates in the west 

 of Salatrucu. The strata about which I am writing are lower than 

 the horizon to which Redlich and Mrazec refer. 



I may add that many years ago I found at Vf. Candoaia on the 

 mica schists transgressive siliceous mica sandstone like that from 



1 K. Redlich, "Geologische Studien urn Gebiete des Olt- und Oltetzthales in 

 Rumanien," Jahrbuch der k. k. geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1899. Three notes in Verhand- 

 lungen, etc. 



, 2 A (Liassic ?) breccia which forms the foundation of the Brezoi Basin and the 

 limestone, also the higher deposits on the Narutu, Sida, Foarfeca, Folia Mountains 

 and the foundation of the sedimentary formations at the skirt of the mountains. G. M. 

 Murgoci, "Calcare si fenomene de erosiune in Carpati merid." Bull. Soc. Sciences 

 Bucharest, 1898. 



3 Suggested already by L. Mrazec and myself in "Muntii Lotrului," Bull. Soc. 

 Ing. mine, 1898. 



