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The former geologist, although he did not find any fossils, con- 

 sidered it, judging from the facies and occurrence, to be Eocene, and 

 figured it as such on his map; the latter at first described it as Sar- 

 matian, 1 but after the publication of Gr. Stefanescu's reply 2 changed 

 his views and assumed the conglomerates to be Tortonian like those 

 from the skirt of the mountains. 3 Some three years ago, however, 

 I was fortunate enough to find here in the grit stratum below the 

 Villa Speranta many imperfectly preserved Nummulites and Orbi- 

 toides (Orbitoides papiracea Boub.), and last summer I collected in 

 the northern beds a large number of Nummulites, Orbitoides, Corals, 

 Operculina (ammonea), Cidaris, etc., which would indicate the same 

 horizon as at Olanesti-Calimanesti, the Middle Eocene in transition 

 to the upper Eocene. But we must be wary, because these Eocene 

 conglomerates are covered by transgressive beds of Tortonian and 

 Sarmatian conglomerates (see below). 



Gr. Stefanescu figures on his map another still larger Eocene 

 klippe at Slatioara, about which Sabba Stefanescu says nothing; 

 on the several occasions of my visits to this point I have not been suc- 

 cessful in finding fossils. However, I am inclined to believe that only 

 the shingle beds and loose conglomerates which constitute the Magur- 

 icea and both walls of the Cerna valley are Oligocene. Like the 

 Sacel Cliff, these beds retain the same direction and inclination, and 

 have the same constitution — crystalline schists, granite, white and 

 reddish limestone, conglomerates, etc. — as the corresponding beds 

 of the Olanesti-Muereasca. The Slatioara klippe is covered trans- 

 gressively by the more recent strata of the salt formation and Pontic. 



(Fig- 3-) 



Mineral springs and natural gas. — The Middle Eocene conglom- 

 erates are characterized by many mineral springs, salt and sulphur 

 springs occurring in the bottom of almost every valley, and the foot 

 of the klippes, the chief being Jiblea, Calimanesti (spa), Muereasca 

 de sus, Olanesti (spa), Cheia, Dobriceni; Slatioara, Sacel (spa). 



Another line of springs is farther to the north at the contact of the 



1 "L'age geologique des conglomerats de Muntenia," Bullet, d. I. Soc. geol. de 

 France, Vol. XXII, p. 229. 



2 "L'age geologique des conglomerats de Sacel," ibid., p. 502. 



3 Sabba Stefanescu, Etudes des terrains tertiaires de Roumanie (1897), p. 112. 



