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similar to the Slanic and the Transylvanian palla. About the origin 

 of this palla see below under "Pontic tuff." 



In Oltenia palla is a bed characteristic of the lower limit of this 

 facies; I have followed it eastward over the Olt valley, and westward 

 up to Slatioara. 



As hanging, the salt formation has thick banks of marls and sandy 

 clays very finely banded, the gray or bluish Tegel of Austria- Hungary ; 

 the bands, which are sometimes as thin as a sheet of paper, arise 

 owing to difference in composition, as well as difference of subse- 

 quent alteration. This complex, the upper strata of which have 

 intercalations of sandstone or sand beds, belong partly to the lower 

 Sarmatian (Buglowian) with Syndosmya apelina and Ervilia pusilla. 

 SSE 



Bulela M^Govora Cfitejesti Bunesti Cacova $N 



Fig. 8. — Profile of the Govora valley. The letters represent the same formations 

 as in Fig. 4. 



g = gypsum bed; F=sand and grit with Cerithium plicalum; /=sand with Ervilia pusilla; Z=lignite 

 layers. 



Near to the coast and to the old cliff there took place in these marls 

 some intercalations of sandstone and conglomerates with vegetable 

 detritus, and dark porous limestone or gray-bluish calcareous marls, 

 smelling strongly of petroleum. We may consider all these latter 

 formations as deposits from the II Mediterranean Sea. 



I have found no fossils in this horizon, but the deposits here are 

 similar, as regards stratigraphy and facies, to the Tortonian deposits 

 from the west, which are, according to their fossils, classified as 

 II Mediterranean. 



Gypsum, which is very frequent in the other parts of the Sub- 

 carpathian salt formation, is sporadic in the Oltenian one, and plays 

 a secondary part. It comes in the higher part of this horizon of salt 

 formation: at Licura (Stoenesti), Pausesti (Otasau), Barbatesti 

 (Figs. 8 and 9) and Lacul Buha, and occurs as repeated layers between 

 the marls and clays in relation with the bituminous limestones and 

 marls. It everywhere undergoes changes, being dissolved or decom- 



