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greenish) shales, which have the appearance of hardly consolidated 

 clays. 



There were also many outcrops of a dense igneous rock, necks 

 southwest and east of Polatly, and sheets nearer to the village 

 and to the northwest. To the northwest, as the plan shows, the 

 situation becomes quite complex; in the plan the strata are inter- 

 preted as representing a laccolith, with overlying sedimentary 

 rocks and flows, sloping away in at least three directions from its 

 uncovered core. The eastern part was, unfortunately, passed 

 over in the night, so that I cannot say whether the conditions were 

 the same on that side or not. Overlying the sedimentary rocks 

 was a sheet of lava. This had baked the clay red for the thick- 

 ness of about a foot, making a very conspicuous layer. The red 

 color was quite extensive toward the north, east of Gordium, 

 so probably the trap sheet had once been much larger, but has 

 been eroded off, leaving only the baked brick layer as a memento. 

 At present, of course, these deposits can only be marked as "prob- 

 ably Eocene." 



Hamilton reports similar mixtures of sedimentary and trap 

 rocks north of Polatly, in the neighborhood of "Begesch" (Bey- 

 djez or Beikos?). 



HAIMANE 



Separated, at least in the line of our route, by a region of recent 

 deposits, from the Polatly limestones and shales, there lies to the 

 east the strikingly arranged Haimane district. In the immediate 

 vicinity of Hammam no fossils have been found, though the 

 rocks (shales) look promising enough. At Kaya Bashy there were 

 plenty of shells in a limy conglomerate, apparently largely Anomias, 

 but they were so much injured in transport that one can hardly 

 determine whether the rocks belong with the eocenes of Polatly, or 

 with the Jura and Lias which other authors have reported to the 

 west of Angora. While Tchihatcheff, who has passed through the 

 district at right angles to our route, considers them as probably 

 Jurassic, I should incline rather to the other conclusion, especially 

 as some of the Polatly nummulites were in quite similar-looking 

 rocks. 



At any rate, they are sedimentary deposits, obliquely banded, 



