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marls and sandstones similar as to facies and fauna to the upper 

 marly layers from the Titesti Basin ; Redlich indicates, further, on his 

 sketch an anticline between the Titesti Basin and Salatrucu Dangesti; 

 this suggests to me that the marls from Titesti may be the same 

 horizon as those from Salatrucu-Calimanesti, and then the corre- 

 spondence between the conglomerates from Brezoi Basin and the 

 similar ones from x\rifu-Cheia would be even more obvious and 

 unassailable. In this case the Flysch of Brezoi-Titesti presents the 

 same character of facies which is described for the whole Carpathian 

 Flysch; Cenomanian = coarse conglomerates; Senonian = marls and 

 sandstones; Middle Eocene = very coarse conglomerates with huge 

 Hippiirites limestone blocks, etc. 1 



From these speculations it follows that the lower Flysch has made 

 an anticline above the Narutu and Cozia Massif, which has been in 

 parts sunk along the Lotru valley, eroded up the ridge, but traces 

 of it were still left in the Valea lui Stan, the small basin at the Turnu 

 monastery and between Baesti and Dangesti. 



TERTIARY OF THE SUBCARPATHIAN REGION 



In the foothills of Oltenia the Tertiary is represented in the whole 

 of its development from the Eocene to the Pleistocene beds. Its 

 general character here is a continuity of deposits, chiefly in the Olt 

 region, from the Cretaceous up to the Levantine; but only a critical 

 and detailed study of the strata, now violently dislocated, can reveal 

 to us the early partially conformable succession. In the western 

 part there may be observed the uninterrupted succession of deposits 

 only from the Mediterranean Sea to the Levantine lake, and also a 

 persistence of facies along the skirt of the mountains, the persistent 

 strand of the sea. 



A. THE FLYSCH OF THE UPPER PALEOGENE 



On the geological map by Gregoire Stefanescu the Eocene forma- 

 tions are drawn correctly in their extension toward the south; their 

 edge passes near Suici (Topologu V.), enters into the Oltu valley at 

 Daesti, and runs with small undulations toward the west, reaching 



1 See about this question the masterly researches by V. Uhlig. A clear resume is:' 

 "Ueber die Klippen der Karpathen," Comptes Rendus, IX e Congres Gcol., 1903 

 Vienne. 



