706 G. M. MURGOCI 



layers of the salt formation, very probably constituting a deposit 

 from the II Mediterranean Sea, as in Moldavia, Bucovina, and 

 Galicia, etc. 



The alternation of the salt marls and palla beds with bluish marls 

 and black cavernous bituminous limestone, perhaps containing nulli- 

 para, bituminous sandstone, and gypsum, is evidence that the Schlier 

 facies includes the deposits from the // Mediterranean Sea, as was 

 suggested by Hilber, and more recently by Mrazec and Teisseyre. 

 On the other hand, the occurrence of salt marls and sand which, near 

 Titireciu, lie immediately on the levigated palla, and which contain 

 Ervilia pussila, Syndosmya apelina, etc., demonstrates to us the 

 continuity oj the Mediterranean lagunar facies, in Oltenia at any rate, 

 with the lower Sarmatian, the Buglowian assise belonging also to the 

 salt formation. 



But while in the center of this region the marly facies predominates, 

 at the skirt of the mountains we find a very gradual transition to the 

 Sarmatian through the Tortonian, with its alternating layers of 

 limestone and calcareous conglomerates. An important confirmation 

 of this continuity is the retardation of the facies westward. Even 

 the middle Eocene conglomerates and grit of Salatrucu have at Sacel 

 an Upper Eocene fauna, like that of the marl facies of OlanestL 

 The banded facies of the salt formation is apparently deposited at 

 Barbatesti, Titireciu, Tomsani, and Otasani well into the Tortonian 

 age, and the marl facies appears as part of the lower Sarmatian. 

 Mrazec and Teisseyre have mentioned Sarmatian layers with salt 

 facies (Prahova R. Sarat Bacau), and Ion Simionescu noticed the 

 same behavior for the marly facies which comes under the Moldavian 

 Sarmatian. 



There is an obvious conformity between the two salt facies, 

 although there are intercalated beds of palla. At Dianul and Otasani 

 there follows on the salt marl a complex of marls, sands, sandstones, 

 and calcareous marls, and above them all, conglomerates with Mactra 

 Fabreana. 



If we assume the same geological conditions for the Ocnele Mari 

 Basin as for the Slanic one,. the question would arise: What formed 

 the south shore of the lagoon? It could not have been the line 

 between Slatioara and Sacel, because the salt formation occurs also 

 to the south of the Slatioara anticline. The torrential shingle and 



