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II Mediterranean deposits in the east of the Carpathians (Galicia, 

 Podolia, Bessarabia, and Moldavia). 1 K. Redlich has described the 

 Tortonian deposits of Cernadia and Polovragi at the skirt of the 

 mountains. He found at Cernadia two horizons: (1) Tegels with a 

 rich fauna: Ostrea cochlear Polli, Pecten, cf. Reussi Horn, Nucula 

 nucleus L., N. Mayeri Horn, Corbula gibba Olivi, Turritella bicari- 

 nata Eichw., T. turris Bast., cf. terebralis Lam., Trochus sp., Natica 

 helicina Brocc, Risoa Lachesis Bast., Ringula buccinea Desh., Mitra 

 recticostata Belt., M. striatula Brocc, etc. (2) Above these tegels 

 come conglomerates and limestone banks with a Leithakalk fauna: 

 Lithothamnium ramosissimum, Alveolina melo d'Orb, Cerithinm 

 riibiginosum Eichw., Monodonta angulata Eichw. Pectunculus pilosus 

 Linn., Conus ventricosus Bronn., Vermetus intortus Lam., Rissoina 

 pus ilia Brocc, Cypraea sp., etc., etc. 



Both horizons belong to the Upper 77 Mediterranean deposits, 

 equivalent to the Leithakalk of the Vienna basin, or to the deposits 

 of Steinabrunn. Representatives of one or the other horizons I have 

 found at Baia de fer, Racovita, Barbatesti, eastward from Cernadia, 

 and in the Scarita ravine, Radosi, Carpinis, Crasna, 2 etc., westward 

 from Cernadia, always along the skirt of the mountains. The 

 Leithakalk facies is, however, better represented and developed. 

 The blocks which I have found above the gypsum at Barbatesti 

 contain a numerous fauna and are identical with those of Cernadia: 



Vermetus intortus Lam. Nucula nucleus L. 



Trochus cf. patiilus Brocc. Chama sp. 



Pecten sp. Lithothamnium ramosissimum, 



Pholas sp. etc., etc. 



The Leithakalk and conglomerates do not, however, seem to form a 

 horizon separate from the marly facies, but only a local phenomenon 

 occasioned by the conditions of the sea and the coast. Westward 

 from Jiu valley the 77 Mediterranean deposits were studied and 

 figured by Sabba Stefanescu (Sketch 1). Dobrita and Suseni are 

 points favorable for studying it. At Suseni especially above this 

 complex of conglomerates and Leithakalk there comes a bank of 



1 See footnote 2 above, and L. Mrazec and Teisseyre, " Salzvorkommen in 

 Rumanien," Zcitschrift fur Berg, and Hilttenwesen, 1903, p. 17. 



2 Some of these localities are described by L. Mrazec in " I Partea de E a Muntilor 

 Vulcan," Bui. Soc. Ing. de mine, 1898. 



