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kinds : white, cream colour, or veined with yellow. They are 

 usually very hard, and include a large variety capable of yielding 

 decorative stone of considerable beauty. 



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These limestones and shales are the oldest rocks in Cyprus, and 

 form the foundation on which the rest of the island has been built 

 up. Gaudry remarked that they bear much resemblance to the 

 Cretaceous rocks in other parts of the eastern Mediterranean basin. 

 He compared them with the Hippurite Limestones of Attica, since 

 assigned to the Cretaceous age, and estimates their thickness at 

 6,500 feet. There is a striking and apparently entire absence of 

 fossil remains in this formation, which causes some doubt as to its 

 correct classification. 



At intervals along the axis of the Kyrenia Mountains there occur 

 masses of igneous rocks which have intruded into or through the 

 limestones. These are coloured brown on the map. Their presence 

 may be responsible for the production of the more crystalline 

 varieties of limestone by contact-metamorphism, but the general 

 compression and uptilting of the beds has probably been accomplished 

 by earth-movement which produced the long anticlinal axis of 

 the chain, and so steep is the angle of this axis that the beds are 

 frequently in a nearly vertical position. 



Specimens recently collected and submitted to Dr. Teall include 

 augite-biotite- syenite, ophitic olivine -dolerite, and decomposed 

 liparite, from the gorge of the Panagra River near Myrtou ; rhyolite 

 or white quartz-felsite near Pentadactylos ; with jasper from near 

 Buffamento and other localities. 



3. The Kythraan Series (Upper Eocene). — This is a formation of 

 sandstone and shales. It is indicated on the map by a green tint, 

 and its beds flank the northern mountains both along their north 

 and south sides, extending from Cape Andreas on the east to 

 Morphou Bay on the west ; they also occur on the southern and 

 western slopes of the southern or central range. 



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The greatest development to which these beds attain occurs in 

 the neighbourhood of Kythrsea, consequently it has been considered 

 convenient to call them the ' Kythrsean Series.' They consist of 

 calcareous sandstone shales, brown, grey, or grey-green in hue, and 

 on the southern slopes of the Kyrenia Eange, where they are most 

 marked, present a series of billowy undulations, which, since the 

 British occupation of Cyprus, have been known as the ' Hummocks.' 



The conglomerates of this series are seldom found except on the 

 slopes of the Kyrenia Mountains in the neighbourhood of the 

 Trypanian limestones ; they contain fragments of rock which 

 undoubtedly belong to the latter, but have been separated therefrom 

 and incorporated in the more recent formation. The best instances 

 of the occurrence of these conglomerates are at St. Catherine's Pass, 

 the Akanthou Gap, and east and west of the village of Akanthou; 

 they have not been observed in any force elsewhere. Their con- 



