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frequently in Oltenia as in the eastern salt region; they are arranged 

 along three lines: (i) Daesti-Bogdanesti-Cacova-Dobriceni; (2) 

 Ocnele Mari, Mt. Slatiora, Pausesti (de Otasau), Folesti, Otasani 

 Aninoasa; (3) Teiusu, Petreni, Tomsani. 



They are accompanied by emanations of hydrocarbons. At 

 Cacova we see a Ferbe (boiling) of natural gas, but no mud volcanoes. 

 These emanations of petroleum gas come probably from the next 

 oil-bearing strata, the greater number from the Burdigalian forma- 

 tion, the lower salt formation which shows an indication of liquid 

 petroleum. Although the upper salt formation is both eroded, folded 

 and faulted, and the anticlines are eroded down to the lower horizon, no 

 trace of liquid petroleum is to be seen. At Pausesti (Otasau) many 

 wells, and two borings of 327™ and 87™, were made; there was con- 

 siderable escape of natural gas from below (from Burdigalian), but 

 no petroleum; however, the work was neither good nor careful, 

 otherwise petroleum would have been found; just as at Govora Spa 

 the administration extracts quantities of petroleum from an iodiferous 

 well bored in the lower horizon (Burdigalian) of the salt formation. 

 The upper horizon of the salt formation in the Pausesti boring was 

 i8i m thick; gypsum was met with at 56 111 . 



E. THE TORTONIAN STAGE 



Sabba Stefanescu and K. Redlich 1 have studied Tortonian deposits 

 from the skirt of the mountains, but they did not mention them as 

 occurring in the salt region. In the above description I have con- 

 sidered as 77 Mediterranean deposits some sandstone conglomerates, 

 dark or bluish, porous limestones, and marls, which alternate with 

 the argillaceous marls in the uppermost horizon of the salt formation. 

 Everywhere, where they occur, they smell very strongly of hydro- 

 carbons. On the hill between Bunesti and Stoenesti they can be well 

 observed ; they alternate with marls and thin strata of palla, and contain 

 a small quantity of the elements of palla in their composition (Fig. 8). 

 At Govora (spa and monastery), Pausesti (Otasau), Lacul Buha, and 

 Bistrita they contain gypsum, or come into closer relation with beds 

 of it. These bituminous marls and limestones correspond to the 

 Nullipora limestone strata which accompany the gypsum of the 



1 hoc. cit. 



