Notices of Memoirs — Bellamy's Map of Cypt'iis. 

 TABLE OF FORMATIONS. 



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Age. 



Character. 



Distribution. 



Local Definition. 



'Cretaceous. 



Highest 

 Cretaceous and 

 Lower Eocene. 



Upper Eocene. 



Olisjocene. 



Break. 



Pliocene and 

 Pleistocene. 



Compact limestonCjUiarble, 

 etc., and associated 

 imeous rocks. 



jSTot represented in Cyprus, 



Sandstone, shales, grey 

 marls, conglomerates, 

 and breccia. 



Grey marls, yellow and 



grey-green clays, gypsum 



selenite, alabaster, etc. 



Tabular white calcareous 



marls, chalk, flint, sub- 



crystalline limestones. 



Igneous rocks of the 



Calcareous sandy lime- 

 stone, hard or friable. 

 Sands, conglomerates, 

 alluvium. 



Kyrenia Mountains 

 and Paphos District, 



Flanks of the Kyrenia 

 Mountains, north 

 and south side of 

 Central Plains, 

 Carpas, and Paphos. 



North coast, Carpas, 

 north and south of 

 Central Plains, 

 north, east, south, 

 and south-west of 

 Troodos Eange. 



centraland southern 



Low country gener- 

 ally, coast littorals, 

 Central Plains, 

 Foot Hills, etc. 



Trypanian, derived 

 from Trypa Vouno, 

 a summit of the 

 Kyrenia Range. 



Kythraean, from 

 Kythrsea, in the 

 neighbom'hood ' of 

 which this series 

 reaches its greatest 

 development. 



Idalia beds, derived 

 from Dali, ancient 

 Idalia, where these 

 marls reach marked 

 development. 

 Athienou stone, etd. 



Kyrenia rock, Nicosia 



Beds, Ag.Paraskevi, 



Famagusta, Cape 



Pyla, and Ag. Phyla 



Stone. 



2. Trypanian Limestone of the Kyrenia Mountains, etc. ( Cretaceotis). 

 The areas occupied by this formation are indicated on the map in 

 pink. The Kyrenia Mountains constitute the northern rampart of 

 the central plains of the island, and commence at a point about 

 & miles eastward of Cape Kormakiti on the northern seabord. The 

 spot is known as ' Skasmata,' a term suggestive of the peculiar 

 physical features of the neighbourhood. From this point, for 9- 

 distance of 28 miles, the range trends in a direction east by south, 

 and in the neighbourhood of Kythrsea changes towards east by 

 north for 30 miles to Komi Kebir at the commencement of the 

 Carpas. Though its extreme length is 58 miles the formation is 

 nowhere more than 3 miles wide, and as the summits of the range 

 frequently reach an altitude of between 2,000 and 3,000 feet, some 

 idea may be gathered of the precipitous nature of these mountain 

 slopes. _ ; 



The whole of this range consists of hard compact limestones, 

 except for occasional intrusions of igneous rock, and with thja 

 exception of a small outlier near Akourso in the Paphos District, 

 these limestones are not encountered in any other part of the island. 

 The characteristics are compact limestones and marbles of several 



